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WALTER BEN HARE 



SUNSHINE 




A COMEDY WITH MUSIC 



Walter H. Bake* Company, Boston 




SUNSHINE 



SUNSHINE 

A Comedy With Music 
A Tonic for the Glooms in Three Acts 



By 
WALTER BEN HARE 

Author of more than one hundred plays, including 
"A Couple of Million,"" ''Professor Pepp," "Old 
Days in Dixie," "The Adventures of Grandpa,'" 
' ' Over Here; ' "Much Ado About Betty, " " The 
Hoodoo;" "Teddy, or, the Runaways;" "The 
Dutch Detective;' "And Billy Dis- 
appeared;" etc. 




WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY 

Publishers of Things Theatrical 

BOSTON, MASS. 

1922 



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Copyright, 1922, by Walter Ben Hare 

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SUNSHINE 



CHARACTERS 

Maudelia McCann, aged ten. 

Mrs. Bunch McCann, of Detroit, the mother. 

Mrs. Sol Whipple, of Whipple s Corners, Conn., the country 

lady. 
Miss Tessie Mitford, the ?nefital case. 
Mr. Juba K. Butternip, of Peoria, III., the old man» 
Miss Gregory, the nurse. 
Buddy Brady, of New York, the ball player. 
Major Kellicott, the speculator. 
Jim Anthony, he s engaged. 
Sylvia Deane, she s engaged. 
Mary, '' Sunshine :' 

Ment Boys and Girls. 



Scene. — The lawn at Sunshine Sanitarium, near New 
York City. 

Act I.— Morning. 
Act II. — Afternoon. 
Act III.— Night. 

Time of Playing. — Approximately two hours. 



COSTUMES AND CHARACTERISTICS 

Maudelia. a pert little girl of about ten. For 
the Prologue she wears an old-fashioned dress with 
hoop-skirts and poke bonnet, all in yellow. In Act 
II she wears a little girl's play dress, torn and dirty, 
an old tarn or hat, and torn stockings. In Act III 
she wears a pretty party dress. 

Mrs. McCann. A large commanding society 
woman of about thirty-eight. Handsome dresses, 
changing for each act. 

Mrs. Whipple. A little old-fashioned country 
woman in rusty black. Small black bonnet. Reti- 
cule and old-fashioned spectacles. Gray hair. 

Tessie. a dramatic part calling* for careful re- 
hearsing and acting. A girl about twenty. Hand- 
some costumes, rather fanciful. 

BuTTERNip. White wig, whiskers and moustache. 
Neat old man's suit, dressing-gown and skull cap. 

Miss Gregory. Nurse's costume. 

Buddy. A lively young fellow of twenty-three. 
Neat costumes, rather loud. 

Major. Pompous, mature-looking man of forty- 
five. Very well dressed. Cane. 

Jim. Similar to Buddy. Change costumes for 
each act. 

Sylvia. A pretty girl of eighteen. Handsome 
costumes suitable to the occasion. 

Mary. Emotional leading lady. Age about twenty- 
three. Nurse's dress to change to plain old-fashioned 
street dress and hat. 



VI 



LIST OF PROPERTIES 

Fancy seat or swing. 

Garden table with one glass (tonic) on plate. 

Two garden chairs. Pillow in chair r. of table. 

Glass of lemonade and straw for Mrs. Whipple. 

Fancy work for Mrs. McCann. 

Wheel chair. 

Bottle of tonic and spoon for Nurse. 

Watches for Nurse, Major and Buddy. 

Large cheap-looking grip for Mary. 

Small fish on a string for Maudelia. (Cloth fish.) 

Long cloth for table in Act IL 

Ring for Sylvia. 

Hand-bell on the table in Act II. 

Large bird-cage for Mrs. Whipple with a cloth 
over it. 

A live cat. 

Red flannel bandage and white linen bandage for 
Butternip. 

Ice for Butternip. 

Document, check and fountain pen for Major. 

Large white pillow for Nurse. 

Two golf balls for Act III. 

Japanese lanterns for Act III. 



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THE PROLOGUE 

Just before the play begins The Prologue, Maudelia 
looks in from l., puts her fingers to her lips and 
says "Shh!" Piano music very soft. She 
moves slowly to c, standing in front of the cur- 
tain. Again she says '' Shhl " The piano gives 
a chord as she curtseys, and plays softly as she 
recites. 

Ye lords and ladies who have gathered here 
To see our little comedy of cheer, 
I bid you welcome to the Sunshine play, 
And hope 'twill drive your troubles all away. 

No Barrymores or Pickfords grace our show, 
But simple lads and lassies whom you know. 
And when you leave, each one of you must say, 
" They did their best to make us like the play." 

For weeks we've worked for this one night's success. 
If approbation should our efforts bless 
We'll be rewarded if you say, ** Well done! " 
So come with us into the land of Fun. 

And now a final word before we part, 

[Moves toward l. 
We'll give the play, but you must do your part. 
Don't sit there silent, looking bored and glum. 
And half-way wishing that you hadn't come. [At l. 

Get in the spirit of the Sunshine play, 
Relax and smile, be jovial and gay, 
Forget the tax, the H. C. L. and fraud, 
But don't forget to laugh . . . and to applaud. 
[The last three words should be given very dis- 
tinctly; she then curtseys and exits at l. 
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SUNSHINE 



ACT I 



SCENE. — The lawn at the Sunshine Sanitarium. 
Exterior backing of grove, landscape or sea. 
About three feet in front of the back drop is a 
wall of stone or brick running across the stage 
from L. to R. This wall is about four feet high 
and has a center entrance, preferably arched. 
This zvall adds to the general effect of the scene, 
but is not necessary. Entrance to a house ap- 
p^ears down r. 2. Two steps and two large 
white columns (of bristol board) make an ef- 
fective entrance. Wood wings at l. Natural 
boughs and small trees may be attached to the 
sides of the stage with the foliage visible to the 
audience. A similar effect may be arranged be- 
hind the wall. Potted plants and flowers ap- 
pear at the foot of the wall and around the 
entrance to the house, the pots masked with green 
leaves. Grass mats and scattered leaves are 
strewn around the stage. Fancy garden seat 
or swing down L. Rustic table and chairs down 
R. c. Natural vines with artificial flowers at- 
tached cover the wall and the base of one of the 
columns. Brilliant yellow light floods the stage 
from L. 

As the curtain rises, Mrs. Whipple is discovered 



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seated at the r. of the table sipping a glass of 
lemonade through a straw. Mrs. McCann is 
seated at the l. of the table engaged in fancy 
work. 
Before the curtain rises the orchestra plays the first 
verse and chorus of Olcott's song, "Mother 
Machree," and then repeats the chorus very 
softly with Mary singing the words off stage at 
R. 2. The curtain rises slowly on words '' that 
shines in your hair." Mrs. Whipple and Mrs. 
McCann look toward r. 2 as Mary finishes 
the chorus in a clear, sweet voice. Music ends. 

Mrs. McCann. 
That's Sunshine. It's as good as a tonic to hear 
her singing there in the Infirmary. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
They took her away from me last Thursday and 
put that Httle red-headed nurse in her place. It gave 
me a backset, I know it did. I'll be here in the Sani- 
tarium for months now. Red-headed persons al- 
ways get on my nerves. You know how it is. [On 
the verge of tears. ] I offered the doctor five dollars 
extra to put Sunshine back on my case, but he 
wouldn't listen to me. [Tear f idly.] And he gave 
me a red-headed nurse. I'm getting worse every day, 
and it's all her fault. Red-headed people are so un- 
sympathetic. 

Mrs. McCann. 
When youVe gone through with all Fve gone 
through, you won't mind the color of your nurse's 
hair. They just keep removing my bones one at a 
time. The Superintendent said that my case was ab- 
solutely unique. They've never had anything like it 



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in the Sanitarium before. I can't eat a thing except 
scraped beef. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I can't take any nourishment at all. But Td be a 
well woman inside of a week if I didn't have that red- 
headed nurse. [Tearfully.] If your nerves were all 
on edge like mine are, you'd sympathize with me. I 
have a good notion to leave here and go to the Bing- 
ham Hospital. 

Mrs. McCann. 
The Bingham Hospital. Oh, my dear! I was 
there once. They take mental cases; some of them 
have to be kept in straight- jackets. You may rest 
assured there's no insanity here. 

[Enter Tessie Mitford from Rear l., with 
both hands raised dramatically. She pauses 
at Rear c. 

Tessie. 
Tell me, have they found a clue yet? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Severely.] Where's your nurse? 

Tessie. 
I gave her the slip. [She laughs slyly.] It was 
easy. An aviator came to my window in an aero- 
plane and I simply got in and flew away. I always 
do that on Monday. They are so stupid here. They 
can't even find a clue, but I'll search and I'll search 
until I find something. [She comes down c, near 
the table.] I'm sure the man was poisoned, but I 
can't prove it until I find a clue. [Takes Mrs. 
Whipple's lemonade.] Maybe this will help me. 
[Drinks it greedily.] No, it's too sour. [Replaces 



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the empty glass on the table.] I'll have to search 
elsewhere. [Crosses to r.] I'm going to bore a hole 
through the floor in the Infirmary and climb down 
into the cellar. Don't tell anyone you saw me. 
[Finger to lips.] Shh ! Mum's the word. I know 
where there's a nest of butterflies. Maybe I can 
find a clue there. Don't tell a soul. [At the door of 
the house.] Not a word, girls, not a word. Shh! 

[Exitj>R. 2. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Sarcastically.] Oh, no, there's no insanity here. 
Not at all. She simply has a slight touch of the ear- 
ache, that's all. 

Mrs. McCann. 
They generally have a nurse with her. Poor 
thing, she imagines she's a detective. She's always 
looking for a clue. 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Outside at Rear l., peevishly.] Don't jolt me. 
Don't jolt me, I say. You know I can't bear to be 
jolted. 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from Rear l., wheel- 
ing in Mr. Butternip. She wheels him 
down L. c. 

Nurse. 
I didn't jolt you. 

Butternip. 
Didn't jolt me? I dunno what else you'd call it. 
I can't bear to be jolted. You jerk this chair up and 
down like a two-horse-power Ford. 

Nurse. 
The idea ! I'm rolling you just as easy. 



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BUTTERNIP. 

Fm sick of this wheel chair. Can't I get out of it 
and sit down Hke an ordinary being? I want to sit 
over there. \Po%nts to seat down l. 

Nurse. 
Do you feel strong enough ? 

BUTTERNIP. 

I'm as strong as an ox. I'll bet Fm the strongest 
man in the Sanitarium. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Rises, places fancy work in her chair and crosses 
to Nurse.] Nurse, have you seen anything of my 
little Maudelia this morning ? 

Nurse. 
Yes, she's down by the shore with Nurse Mar- 
jorie. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Crosses to Rear l., looks off stage.] My, I hope 
she doesn't allow her to go in the water. She's so 
frail. 

Butternip. 
There! Lift me! [Nurse lifts him.] Careful 
now. Don't jolt me. Madam, I said not to jolt me. 
I can stand by myself. [Tries it, totters.] Catch 
me, catch me. I want to sit over there. [Points to 
the chair formerly occupied by Mrs. McCann.] I 
want to get the sun. 

[Nurse moves him to the chair; he seems very 
weak and moving about two inches at a 
time. 



6 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
Steady, now. Use your feet more. I can't carry 
you. Can't you use your feet? 

BUTTERNIP. 

Certainly I can use my feet, but I don't want to be 
jolted. Slow now. Take it slow. No use to hurry. 
Take it slow. \At chair.] Easy now, let me down 
gently. Gently, now. There. Don't jolt me. 
[5i^.s-.] There. Owww! 

[Jumps up wildly with a loud screech of pain. 

Nurse. 
What is it? 

[BuTTERNiP jumps wildly around the stage in 
direct contrast to his former languid jnanner. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Ouch ! Tm killed. I'm stabbed. Somebody 
stabbed me. [Rubs hip. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Rising in alarm. ] Stabbed you ? [ Weeps loudly. ] 
Oh, my nerves, my nerves ! 

Mrs. McCann. 
[ Comes down l. to seat. ] Oh ! 

BUTTERNIP. 

That chair. I sat down on a hornet, bumblebee's 
nest, or something. 

Nurse. 
[Feeling in the chair.] It's a needle. Your sew- 
ing, Mrs. McCann. [Hands it to her. 



SC/NSHIA'E 7 

Mrs. McCann. 
I didn't know he was going to sit in my chair. 

BUTTERNIP, 

Like to ruined me for life. I can't stand it to be 
jolted, much less stabbed like that. You did it on 
purpose. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Oh, I'm so sorry. 

Nurse. 
Never mind. It's probably done you a lot of good. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Good? Good! It nearly killed me. Leaving a 
needle sticking straight up in a chair. I'd get better 
treatment at home. This Sanitarium is killing me, 
killing me by inches. 

[Feels seat of chair, sits down carefully, sinks 
back in seat with a sigh of relief. 

Nurse. 
[Back of the table, fakes bottle- from pocket and 
prepares tonic] It's time to take your tonic. See, 
I have it all ready for you. 

Butternip. 
I don't want to take any tonic. 

Nurse. 

You've got to take it. 

[Mrs. Whipple resumes her seat at r. of 
table, 

Butternip. 
It doesn't do a bit of good. I told the doctor I 
needed a new tonic. 



8 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
This IS a new tonic. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Well, I ain't a-goin' to take it out here in front of 
everybody. 

Nurse. 
Yes, you are. Ifs the doctor's orders. See, it's 
not the same color as the other. Try it now. 

\He tastes it cautiously. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Oh, I'm a dead man. [Makes a horrible face.] 
Say, where in tunket do they get all this vile poison 
they call tonics? It's worse than the other one. 
Say! [Motions Nurse to come nearer; he speaks 
confidentially.] What percent is it? 

Nurse. 
Percent ? 

Butternip. 
You know what I mean. What percent is it? 

Nurse. 
Alcohol, fifty-nine percent. 

Butternip. 
The other one was only thirty-six. [Drinks it 
greedily, smacks his lips.] It ain't so bad. Gimme 
another. 

Nurse. 
Not for two hours. 



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BUTTERNIP. 

Two hours! I'll be dead by that time if I can't 
have any tonic. That's all that's keeping me alive. 
I need a tonic every fifteen minutes. I know what 
I need. 

Nurse. 
And I know the doctor's orders. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Well, give me half a dose, anyhow. 

Nurse. 
Not another drop. 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Whines.] Aw, now 

Nurse. 
If you don't be calm and keep still you won't get 
another drop to-day. 

Butternip. 
Ain't I keeping still ? And ca'm, I'm as ca'm as a 
baby. 

Nurse. 
[Crossing back of Mrs. Whipple.] Are you com- 
fortable, Mrs. Whipple? 

Mrs. Whipple. 

[Starts to weep.] Comfortable? I'll never be 

comfortable again. They've put that red-headed 

nurse on my case, and it's left me all unstrung. I — 

I j-just can't stand it. [Weeps. 



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BUTTERNIP. 

Give her a dose of my tonic. 

Nurse. 
Now don't think about your nurse. Try and be 
as cheerful as you can. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Cheerful, with my nerves! And that Miss Mit- 
ford has just been out here and drank up my lemon- 
ade. [Tearfully.] And the doctor allows me only 
one a day. 

Nurse. 
Is Miss Mitf ord out again ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She went in the Infirmary. She's been hunting for 
clues again. Really, she left me so unstrung. 

Nurse. 
She's getting better, I think. 

BUTTERNIP. 

They give her a tonic every twenty minutes. I 
think I'll begin to hunt clues myself. 

Buddy. 
[Off stage at R. 2. Ascends the scale loudly.] 
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ! 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Sewing at l. ] My gracious, what's that ? 

Mrs. Whipple 
An operation. Someone is shrieking in pain. 



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Nurse. 
The Superintendent is giving one of the new pa- 
tients an examination. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Maudelia told me that three men came last night. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Young men? [Butternip c^o.?^^. 

Nurse. 

Two of them are. One is Miss Deane's fiance. 
He's come to take her home to-morrow. 

[Buddy heard off stage ascending the scale 
as before. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Oh, make him stop. My nerves ! I can't stand it. 
I can't stand it at all. 

Nurse. 
It won't last very long. He must have facial 
paralysis, or something like that. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Paralysis, your grandmother! No one that can 
yell like that is paralyzed. 

Mrs. McCann. 
I had to do just the same thing when I had my first 
examination. That was just before my first opera- 
tion. After my sixth my vocal chords were just as 
normal as anyone's. I can sing those exercises louder 
than he can. [Starts to do so.] Ah, ha! 

Butternip. 
[Interrupts.] We'll take your word for it. 



12 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
Are you ready to go in now, Mr. Buttemip? 

BUTTERNIP. 

No, I ain't. Fm ready for my tonic now. 

Nurse. 
\Loo'ks at her watch.] In one hour and forty 
minutes. 

BUTTERNIP. 

In one hour and forty minutes I'll be beyond hu- 
man aid. 

Nurse. 
You're all right, and you know it. I'll leave you 
here for ten minutes. 

[Exit in house, at r. Buddy repeats scale louder, 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Rising.] My, he's growing worse. 

Mrs. Whipple. 

I wonder what he looks like. 

[Crosses to house and looks in. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Can you see him? [Mrs. Whipple nods.] Is he 
the young one ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
He's very good-looking. 

Mrs. McCann. 
I suppose he's the one who is going to marry Miss 
Deane. 



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BUTTERNIP. 

No wonder they sent him to a Sanitarium. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
He's coming out here. [Resumes her seat. 

Mrs. McCann. 
I'm so glad we're getting a few young men about 
the place. 

BUTTERNIP. 

They get tired of home-brew and come up here to 
get a decent tonic. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
He's a very aristocratic young man, so refined 
looking. 

Buddy. 
[Ojf stage at r. 2, loudly.] Ah, that's all right, I 
can find me own way all right, all right. Don't 
worry about me, I won't get lost in the tall grass. 
I'm Jake, all right. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
What a distinguished voice. 

Buddy. 
[Backs in from the house, speaking to someone 
off R. 2.] Sure, I'll find the doctor. Much obliged 
to you fer what you done fer me. [Backs into Mrs. 
Whipple, who is seated R. of table. She screams.] 
Oh, excuse me, lady, I was giving a correct imitation 
of a crab walkin' backward. 



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Mrs. Whipple. 
Oh, it's perfectly all right. [Slight pause.] You're 
one of the new arrivals, aren't you? 

Buddy. 
Right-o. You batted a home run the first time. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I what? 

Buddy. 
You guessed right. [Back of table. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Seated L.] Are you to be in the Infirmary? 

Buddy. 
[At rear c] Naw. Do I look like I was infirm? 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Seated l. of table.] Then you're to be in one of 
the cottages, I gather. 

Buddy. 
Correct again. [Sits in the wheel chair at rear c. 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Barks at him.] Here, here, be careful of that 
chair. 

Buddy. 
[Runs the chair rapidly toward Butternip, bark- 
ing like a dog.] Woof, woof, woof! 

BUTTERNIP. 

[ Throws up L. arm to guard his face. ] Don't you 
hit me. 



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Buddy. 
[Laughs and wheels chair back to rear c] Aw, 
that's all right. I was just tryin' to get acquainted, 
that's all. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Oratorically.] We're glad to welcome you here 
to the Sunshine Sanitarium, young man. I'm Mrs. 
McCann. Mrs. Bunch McCann of Detroit. This is 
my tenth season in the Infirmary. 

Buddy. 
You orter be cured by this time. 

Mrs. McCann. 
No, young man, I'll never be cured. Temporary 
alleviation I may expect, but an ultimate recovery, 
never. 

Buddy. 
Is that what you got? Take it from me, lady, if 
it's as bad as it sounds, it ain't no wonder this is your 
tenth season in the Infirmary. 

Mrs. McCann. 
This is Mr. Butternip. He's from Peoria. 

Buddy. 
No wonder he looks like that. 

Butternip. 
I hope I see you well, young man. 

Buddy. 
You orter. Yer lookin' right at me. 

Mrs. McCann. 
And Mrs. Whipple. 



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Mrs. Whipple. 
Mrs. Sol Whipple of Whipple's Comers, Connecti- 
cut. Lots of great people have come from Whipple's 
Corners. 

Buddy. 
Well, you couldn't hardly blame 'em, could you ? 

BUTTERNIP. 

You were just having an examination, wasn't you? 

Buddy. 
I'll tell the world. Say, you orter heard me sing. 

BUTTERNIP. 

We did, thank you. 

Buddy. 
Oh, don't mention it. I'll do it again if you liked it. 

Butternip. 
Wait till I've had my tonic. Then I don't care 
what happens. 

Buddy. 
The doc said I had a sub-mucous infection, but it 
didn't seem to infect me voice any. 

Butternip. 
It sounded infected. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
You'd better be thankful you haven't got nerves. 
I'm a total wreck from nerves. The only nourish- 
ment I have is lemonade. 



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BUTTERNIP. 

You'd better make 'em give you a tonic like mine. 
You take four of 'em and you won't have a nerve in 
your body. [Enter Nurse Gregory from r. 2. 

Nurse. 
[At R.] The doctor is ready for you, Mrs. Mc- 
Cann. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Rises.] I was hoping my little Maudelia would 
come back before I went in. 

Nurse. 
I'll look after her until you come out. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Crosses to r.] Thank you, nurse. 

Nurse. 
Have you rested long enough for the operation ? 

Mrs. McCann. 
Oh, yes. I'm quite ready. This will be my ninth. 

Buddy. 
[ Rises. ] Your ninth ? 

Mrs. McCann. 
Yes. I'm the only woman in the Sanitarium who's 
had nine operations. 

[Exit into house at r. 2 with Nurse. 

Buddy. 
Gee, after youVe had eight er nine, I don't see 
what you got left to have taken out. 

[Resumes his seat in the wheel chair. 



1 8 SUNSHINE 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Tearfully.] She's always casting slurs at me be- 
cause I don't have to be cut up. I guess my nerves 
are just as important as her bones. [Weeps loudly.] 
I won't put up with it. It's getting unbearable. No- 
body knows or cares what I suffer. [Weeps loudly. 

Buddy. 
[Wheels himself over to Butternip.] Say, what's 

de matter with that old lady, anyhow? Is she ? 

[ Taps his forehead. 

Butternip. 
No, no, of course not. She's jist nervous and 
sintimintal, that's all. She's full of sintimint. 

Buddy. 
[Shocked.] Full of cinnamon? Good-night! 

Butternip. 
Not cinnamon, young man ; sentiment ! 

Buddy. 
[Wheels himself to Mrs. Whipple, laughing.] 
Gosh, I thought he said you was full of cinnamon. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Paying no attention to him, weeping softly.] 
Mrs. McCann's gone. She was a good woman and 
now she's gone. It's the way of the world. Here 
to-day and gone to-morrow. Now — she's gone. 

[Weeps loudly. 

Buddy. 
[Wheels himself away from her to rear c, in 
alarm.] Say, them doctors is forgetting their treat- 
ment in her case. She's got it bad. That old lady 



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ain't right a-tall. [ Wheels himself down to Butter- 
nip.] Say, little one, maybe you can tell me where's 
the guy I'm looking fer. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Are you speaking to me, sir? 

Buddy. 
I'll say so. What did you think I was doin'? A 
song and dance ? 

BUTTERNIP. 

I didn't quite catch you. 

Buddy. 
The Sup'intendent what examined me gimme a 
note to me own private bone-setter. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Private bone-setter ? 

Buddy. 
Sure. Where kin I find him at ? 

Butternip. 
Find who? 

Buddy. 
The pinch-hitter — the medicine man — the guy who's 
goin' to make me jake again. Get me? 

Butternip. 
I don't understand a word you're talking about. 

Buddy. 
\Rises, crosses to Mrs. Whipple.] He don't get 
me, lady. Maybe you kin wise me to where I kin 



20 SUNSHINE 

find the hypo-sticker who's going to get busy on me 
map. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Your map? What map? 

Buddy. 
\To audience.^ Wouldn't that smear you? Say, 
can't nobody around here talk United States ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
We don't understand you, young man. 

Buddy. 
Watcher want me ter do? Talk deef and dumb 
on me fingers ? 

BUTTERNIP. 

You're looking for some one, I gather. 

Buddy. 
You got a great head. You orter be in a college, 
er somewheres. Sure, I'm looking fer the doctor. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
\To Butternip.] Oh, he's looking for the doctor. 

Butternip. 
\To Buddy.] Which doctor? There are six of 
'em here. 

Buddy. 

The Sup*intendent tells me to find a bird named 
Downs. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
There ain't a bird in the whole Sanitarium, except 
my poll parrot and the chickens. 



Sl/NSHINE 21 

Buddy. 
Maybe he's one of them. 

BUTTERNIP. 

You are looking for Doctor Downs? 

Buddy. 
You got a great head fer facts. [Down L. 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from the house at R. 2. 

Nurse. 
Time to go in, Mr. Butternip. 

Butternip. 
Time for that tonic yet ? 

Nurse. 
Oh, you're just Hke a child. You'll have to wait 
seventy minutes. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
How's Mrs. McCann getting along? 

Nurse. 
Just fine. They're almost through. It wasn't 
anything very serious. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She said it was a matter of life and death. 

Nurse. 
Oh, she always says that. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She got me all unstrung. You know my nerves 
can't stand anything like that. [Tearfully.] I 
thought I'd never see her again. 



22 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
[Crosses to Butternip.] Can you get up? 

BUTTERNIP. 

Not unless I've had my tonic. 

Nurse. 
[Tries to lift him.] Here, let me help you. 

Butternip. 
Steady, now. Steady, young woman; don't jolt 
me. I can't bear to be jolted. 

Buddy. 
I'll help you. 

[Bounces Butternip from chair and into 
wheel chair in a hurry. 

Butternip. 
[Howls,] Ohh! What you trying to do? Mur- 
der me? You nearly jolted the life out of me. 

[Nurse wheels him to Rear l. 

Buddy. 
That wasn't a jolt; it was just a southpaw jab. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
This young man is waiting for Doctor Downs. 

[Nurse comes to c. 

Nurse. 
He's busy on a case just now. I'll send Sunshine 
to you. She's to be your nurse. 

[Nurse goes to the wheel chair at Rear l. 

Buddy. 
Sunshine, eh? Say, lady, if it's all the same to 
you, I'd rather have moonshine. 



SUNSHINE 23 

BUTTERNIP. 

[With a cackling laugh.] He, he, he. Says he'd 
rather have moonshine. Ain't he the funniest 
feller? Better give him a dose of my tonic. He, 
he, he. [He is wheeled out at Rear l. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Crossing to Rear l.] Wait till you see Sunshine. 
She's the finest nurse in the Sanitarium. She was 
on my case until last Thursday. They took her away 
from me and gave me that little red-headed snip. 
[Starts to weep.] And my nerves can't abide a red- 
headed nurse. 

Buddy. 
[Follows her.] Turn off the faucet, er you'll flood 
the sink. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Oh, I just can't stand it. [Weeps loudly.] I just 
can't stand it. [Exits at Rear l., weeping loudly. 

Buddy. 
[Follows her to the exit, weeping loudly, then 
comes to c. laughing. ] Dat old lady is the best imita- 
tion of a sprinkling cart I ever saw in me life. 
[Sits L. of table.] Oh, I'm going to like this place 
a lot, I don't think. It's so nice and cheerful. I 
feel about as happy as a three-legged alley-cat on 
the back fence In a thunder-storm. 

[Soft music: Chorus of "Mother Machree." 
Mary enters slowly from Rear l. She 
comes down to c. Take plenty of time for 
the entrance. 

Mary. 
Good-morning, sir. 



24 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
\Looks up; his look of woe changes to a smile; he 
smiles broadly and rises.] Morning. 

Mary. 
Miss Gregory said you were looking for Doctor 
Downs. 

Buddy. 
She said she'd send Sunshine to me, and beUeve 
me, Httle one, that's just what she's done. 

Mary. 
That's a sort of a nickname they have for me. 
You told her you'd rather have moonshme. That's 
what they always say. 

Buddy. 
[Bashfully twists l. foot and looks at it.] I'm 
kinda — I'm kinda partial to sunshine myself. 

[End music. 

Mary. 
[Laughs.] I believe I'm to be your nurse. 

Buddy. 
Suits me from the ground up. I kin stand it, if 
you kin. 

Mary. 
Have you ever had a nurse before ? 

Buddy. 
Nope. I've had a stenographer and a ribbon sales- 
lady and a high-school junior, but you're me first 
nurse. 



SUNSHINE 25 

Mary. 
You seem to have been quite popular with the 
ladies. 

Buddy. 
Not me. I'm too bashful. I call 'em up and take 
'em to a dance or some place, and then take 'em home 
again. The next time I call up they've alius got 
another date. Sump'm's wrong wit' me batting aver- 
age when it comes to the ladies. 

Mary. 
Did the Superintendent give you an examination? 

Buddy. 
Sure. He had me singing scales like a homesick 
canary. 

Mary. 
And what was his verdict? 

Buddy. 

He said I had a good constitution, but a rotten 
voice. 

Mary. 

If you're under Doctor Downs it must be an opera- 
tion. 

Buddy. 
Sub-mucous infection. 

Mary. 
Oh, I'm glad it isn't anything serious. 

Buddy. 
Tnat sounds serious. 



26 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
Just a little whiff of ether and it will be all over 
in a minute. 

Buddy. 
All over with me? 

Mary. 
No, with the infection. Did the examination hurt ? 

Buddy. 
Well, it wasn't no home-run hit or nothing like 
that. He stuck sump'm up in me head and I told 
him to cut it out. He said that was just what they 
intended to do. 

Mary. 
The doctor won't be ready for you until this after- 
noon. All you have to do until then is to rest. 

Buddy. 
Say, I'm worse'n you think I am. I'll have to 
have me nurse with me until I have the operation. 

Mary. 

{Laughs.'X I've heard that one before, Mr. 

Say, what's your name? 

Buddy. 
Brady. Buddy Brady. 

Mary. 
Not the great Buddy Brady? 

Buddy. 
Naw, I dunno as you could just say that. 



SUNSHINE 27 

Mary. 
Not the southpaw? [He grins and nods.] You 
are? Say, I want to shake hands with you, Mr. 
Brady. I've seen you work and I think you're a 
wonderful ball player. 

Buddy. 
[Smiles at her, then turns away bashfully and 
speaks to the audience.] Say, this here Sanitarium 
ain't goin' to be so bad, after all, I'll tell the bleachers. 

Mary. 
I saw you pitch in Brooklyn. Two years ago. 
On the Fourth of July. 

Buddy. 
The Fourth of July? Say, don't I remember that 
game? There was a man on second and nobody out 
when I came in. I gave him three fast balls. 

Mary. 
[Close to him.] And he let two of 'em go by. 

Buddy. 
And then missed the other one. [Laughs. 

Mary. 
Then you came right across the heart with a fast 
one. It had an awful hop in it. It seemed to bounce 
up and down as it flew. 

Buddy. 
Tig hit it and Mike was camped under it. 

[Fast dialogue and action. 

Mary. 
Dutch Weinkoop was the boy I was afraid of. 



28 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
Dutch? I gave him one spitter hke that, \Imi- 
tates.\ and then another he didn't strike at, hke that. 
\lm%tates.\ That was a ball. Then I comes back 
with me two fast ones and Dutch was a dead baby. 

Mary. 
They didn't steal any bases, either. Gee, I could 
have kissed you that day. 

Buddy. 
Why didn't you? 

Mary. 
I won four dollars and a pair of silk 



Silk? 

\Laughs.\ Gloves. 



\Pauses. 
Buddy. 

Mary. 



Buddy. 
ySadly.'X Dat was one of me big games. In them 
days I thought I was Jake fer the rest of me life, 
and then — one day — McPherson was twirlin' the ball 
and I — got it. Right here. [Hands to heart.] And 
another here. [Hand between eyes.] And — it — 
was — all — over. It was Buddy Brady fer the dis- 
card. [Turns hack to audience and speaks with deep 
emotion.] It was all over. I was a has-been, and 
I could never pitch another ball again. 

Mary. 
That's why you came here to the Sanitarium ? 



SUNSHINE 29 

Buddy. 
\Turns to her. ] Yeah. Me pal Jim Anthony was 
comin' up to meet his fi-nan-say, who's been cooped 
in here, and he said I'd better come along and let the 
Sup'intendent look me over. 

Mary. 
Mr. Anthony is engaged to Miss Sylvia Deane, 
isn't he? 

Buddy. 
Yeah, that's her name. Miss Deane. 

Mary. 
I suppose he is a rich young man. 

Buddy. 
Sure he is. He's got a couple of farms up state 
that brought him in thirty thousand clear money last 
year. 

Mary. 
Thirty thousand ? My ! I wish I had a couple of 
farms. 

Buddy. 
I'm going to manage one of 'em for him next year. 
You see, he's going to move to the city and go into 
business. 

Mary. 
[Slowly and bashfully.'] Won't it be awfully lone- 
some for you up there managing a farm all by your- 
self? 

Buddy. 
Lonesome? Aw, I dunno. I got a dog. 



30 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
\Shows impatience at his reply.] IVe got to go 
into the operating room now to see if Doctor Downs 
needs me. You wait around here in the grounds. 
Or come back at one o'clock. 

Buddy. 
T'anks. I'll stick around here, if it's all the same 
to you. Maybe you can run out once in a while. 

Mary. 
What for? 

Buddy. 
Oh, nothing. I just kinda like Sunshine, dat's all. 

[Giggles. 

Mary. 
[Giggles.] All right. I'll ruh out once in a while 
if I can. [Gives her hand.] Good-bye. 

Buddy. 
[Holding her hand.] Say, how do you like being 
a nurse here in the Sanitarium ? 

Mary. 
I like it. But there are other things I'd like better. 
Mother always used to say that I was a reg'lar 
farmer. 

Buddy. 
[Still holding her hand.] It ain't no wonder the 
folks here call you Sunshine. You've done me a lot 
of good already. 

Mary. 
Do you know I've learned something about you ? 



SUNSHINE 31 

Buddy. 

What is it? 

Mary. 
[Laughs and runs to door of house at r. 2, turns, 
faces him.] You're not nearly as bashful as you 
think you are. [Laughs and exits into the house. 

Buddy. 
Sunshine! Say, they got her right label all right, 
all right. Gee, she's a nice girl. The first time in 
my life I ever met a girl I could talk to without get- 
tin' skeered. [Sits in the swing down l.*] I wouldn't 
have missed this trip here to the Sanitarium for a 
million dollars. Sunshine ! I'll say she is, I'll tell 
the grand stand. 

[Enter Major Kellicott from Rear l. 

Major. 
Ah, good-morning, Mr. Brady. [Comes down c. 

Buddy. 
[At L.] Good-morning is right. I never saw a 
better one. Sunshine and everything. 

Major. 
Have you seen anything of Mr. Anthony? 

Buddy. 
Not since breakfast. He had a date with his lady 
fi-nan-say to ride through the mountains, er sump'm. 

Major. 

[Looks at zvatch.] He said he'd meet me here at 
ten. 



32 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
I didn't know you was coming here to the Sani- 
tarium at all. When we met you on the train last 
night I thought you was going on through. 

Major. 
To be quite frank with you, that was my intention. 
But I thought this would be a good time and place to 
interest Mr. Anthony in a little business proposition 
I'm connected with. 

Buddy. 
Jim don't know nothing about business. Why, he 
ain't city-broke yet. 

Major. 
I intend to introduce him to the business side of 
the city. He'll be city-broke then. 

Buddy. 
\To the audience. \ That ain't all. He'll be dead 
broke. 

Major. 
You and Mr. Anthony are great friends, aren't 
you? 

Buddy. 
I'll tell the team, we are. Buddies over in France, 
Jim and me was, and we've stuck closter than glue 
ever since. 

Major. 
I understand he's not connected with any city 
business ? 



SUNSHINE 33 

Buddy. 
Naw ; all he does is sign checks and go to the ball 
game. 

Major. 
He told me he was going to place his farm under 
managers and live in the city. 

Buddy. 
That's right. Fm going to run one of 'em for him. 

Major. * 

Oh, so you are a farmer? 

Buddy. 
[Angrily.] Who's a farmer? Naw, I don't know 
nothin' about no farm, but Jim says all I got to do 
is to pay the men and milk the cows. I'm going to 
wear cowhide boots, by Gosh, and grow long chin 
friskers and everything. 

Major. 
[Looks off L.] Someone is riding up the moun- 
tain. I think it's Mr. Anthony. 

Buddy. 
[Crosses to Rear l. and looks off.] Yep, that's 
him. And his fi-nan-say is with him. I guess I'll 
slide along to third base. [Crosses to Rear c. 

Major. 
Have you met the young lady? 

Buddy. 
Not yet. Say, she's a queen to look at, ain't she? 
[Looking off Rear l.] What's she dressed up that 
way for? Is that the uniform of the Sanitarium? 



34 SUNSHINE 

Major. 
\Laughs.\ Why, that's a riding habit. 

Buddy. 
I'll say it's a bad habit. She looks like a boy. 
Come on, let's beat it. 

Major. 
Don't you want to meet the young lady ? 

Buddy. 
Sure. But not now. You see I ain't used to 
these society dames. 

Major. 
ril wait till he's at liberty. Let's look at the tennis 
court. 

[Exit, Rear r., back of the house. Enter 
Mary from r. 2, coming from the house. 

Mary. 
[Agitated.] Mr. Brady! 

Buddy. 
[At c] Gee, the sun is shining again. 

Mary. 
Who was that man ? 

Buddy. 
What man ? 

Mary. 
The man you were just talking to. I saw you 
from the window. 



SUNSHINE 35 

Buddy. 
That's Major Kellicott from the city. Do you 
know him? 

Mary. 
No — I — that is, I don't think I do. What time 

is it? 

Buddy. 
\Loo'ks at huge watch. ] Just ten. 

Mary. 
Then I have time to catch the train. 

Buddy. 
Train? Are you going away? 

Mary. 
Yes, Fm going away ; I've got to get away. 

Buddy. 
Where you going? 

Mary. 
I don't know. Anywhere away from here. Any- 
where. I've got to get away. 

[Hurries out at r., going into the house. 

Buddy. 
Going away? I wonder what scared her. 
[Pause.] I wonder — what — scared her? It's him. 
She's afraid of Kellicott. She's running away from 
him. I can't let her go away. She'll stay and I'll 
take care of her. I'll take care of her. 

[Exits at Rear r., going back of the house. 
Enter Jim Anthony and Sylvia Deane 
from Rear l. 



36 SUNSHINE 

Sylvia. 
My, Fm glad you're here, Jim. I feel a hundred 
percent better already. 

Jim. 
And to-morrow we go to the city and start making 
plans for the future. Our future. We'll be mar- 
ried next week. 

Sylvia. 
Oh, not next week. It'll take me months to get 
ready. 

Jim. 
And while you are getting ready I'll be building a 
little nest, just for us two, for you and me. A little 
love-nest. 

[Duet may he introduced, similar to "A Lit- 
tle Love Nest " from the musical comedy 
"Mary." 

Sylvia. 
Who were the men who came up with you last 
night ? 

Jim. 
One was Buddy Brady. He was my pal over in 
France. They don't make 'em any finer than Buddy. 
He's going to run one of my farms for me when I 
move to the city. 

Sylvia. 
But I thought he was a baseball player. 

Jim. 
He was, but he had an accident that put him out 
of the game forever. 



SUNSHINE 37 

Sylvia. 
Oh, I'm so sorry. He saved your life, didn't he, 
Jim? 

Jim. 
He sure did. Picked me off of a barb-wire en- 
tanglement right in the face of the enemy's fire. He 
got a D. S. M. for that. 

Sylvia. 
I want to meet him right away. 

Jim. 
I'll bring him up after lunch. He's a diamond in 
the rough, Buddy is, but a diamond for all that. 

Sylvia. 
I'm sure of it. 

Jim. 
I thought maybe the Sanitarium might help him. 

Sylvia. 
Oh, he's here for treatment then? 

Jim. 
Yes, If they can keep him still long enough. His 
middle name is activity. The other man who 
came with us is Major Kellicott. We met him on 
the train and he wanted to put some business proposi- 
tion up to me, so he decided to stay over here for a 
day and talk to me. He wants me to go into busi- 
ness in the city. 

Sylvia. 
That's just what T want, too. It would be the best 
thing in the world for both of us. No matter how 



38 SUNSHINE 

much money a man has, he should always have a 
business of some kind. 

Jim. 
Little Miss Wisdom, that's just my idea exactly. 
But why talk business when we can talk of so many 
more interesting things ? 

Sylvia. 
We can't talk any more at all. IVe got to go in 
now for my last treatment. Come along and meet 
my doctor. \At door r. 2. 

Jim. 
I want to tell him how grateful I am for making 
you well again. 

\They go into the house at r. 2. Enter Buddy 
from Rear r., from behind the house. 

Buddy. 
I couldn't talk to him. I'm seeing red and I 
wouldn't say a word until I knew what it was all 
about. He scared her. She was like a little fright- 
ened bird trying to get away from a snake. I won- 
der what kind of a strangle hold he's got on her. 
Gee, she's a nice girl, and he, he ain't fit to live in 
the same world with her. [Crosses to the swing 
down L.] I mustn't let her get away. Sooner than 
have anything like that happen I'd take him out there 
and drop him down the side of the mountain. [Soft 
music, Chorus of " Mother Machree." Mary enters 
from the house, dressed in an old-fashioned traveling 
dress with coat and hat. She carries a large, cheap- 
looking grip. She starts out at Rear l. hut pauses 
as Buddy speaks.] Halt! 



SUNSHINE 39 

Mary. 
\At Rear l.] Oh, I thought you'd gone. 

Buddy. 
[Down c] When the traffic cop says Halt, you 
wanter stop. See ? 

Mary. 
But Fve got to catch the eleven o'clock train. 

Buddy. 
Ain't you going to say good-bye to me? 

Mary. 
[Comes to him at c] Yes, sir. You've been good 
to me, Mr. Brady. I wish all the men in the world 
were as good as you are. 

Buddy. 
First time in my life anybody ever said I was good. 
So you're going away ? 

Mary. 
Yes, I've got to. [Places grip on stage. 

Buddy. 
Did you tell 'em in there ? 

Mary. 
No, I didn't tell anybody. I didn't have time. I 
don't want anyone to see me. 

Buddy. 
Whatcha goin' away for, Sunshine? 

Mary. 
I— I— can't tell you. It's just that I want to get 
away from here ; I want to go where no one knows 



40 SUNSHINE 

me and where those who know me can't ever find me 
again. I want to make a new start somewhere— 
somewhere in the country. \End music. 

Buddy. 
Why don't you go home? 

Mary. 
I haven't any home. I Hved alone with my mother 
until — until — she [ Weeps. 

Buddy. 
Then you're all alone? You ain't got nobody? 

Mary. 
No one who cares anything about me. 

Buddy. 
Yes, you have. I care. 

Mary. 
You? Why, you don't hardly know me. You just 
saw me for the first time half an hour ago. 

Buddy. 
Yeah, that's so, little one, but you've got a friend 
in me. Now tell me honestly why you are hurrying 
away. 

Mary. 
I — can't tell you. I can't tell anyone. 

Buddy. 
I don't think you ought to go. You promised to 
help me when I put meself in the doctor's hands this 
afternoon. You promised, didn't you? 



SUNSHINE 41 

Mary. 
Y-e-s. 

Buddy. 
Well, then, I want you to keep your promise. 
Somebody here has frightened you. You thought 
you was all alone and wanted to make a quick get- 
away, but you was wrong. You ain't alone. I'm 
here with you. I'll take care of you. 

Mary. 
And you really want me to stay? 

Buddy. 
Want you to? Sure. Will y'? I give you my 
word that nothing, ner no one can harm you. And 
I know I couldn't have that sub-mucous infection 
taken out without you. 

Mary. 
Then I'll stay, if you really want me to. \Gwes 
hhn her hand.] Say, Mr. Brady, [Pauses and looks 
him square in the face.] I just want you to know 
what I think. 

Buddy. 
What do you think ? 

Mary. 
I think they don't make men any finer than you 
are. I'm not afraid of anything in the world when 
you are here. 

Buddy. 

Then, believe me. Sunshine, I'll be here fer some 
time. 



42 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
YouVe been awfully good to me, Mr. Brady. 
\Sojt music, Chorus of *' Mother Machree."] You 
won't let anyone harm me, will you? 

Buddy. 
No, ril tell the fans I won't. 

Mary. 
[Crosses to house at r,] Then FU stay. [Turns 
to him.] You know everything seems different when 
you've got a friend. 

Buddy. 
[Hastily crosses to her.] Then you'll let me be 
your friend? 

Mary. 
I'm proud to have you. Now I'm not afraid of 
anything. [Esi;its R. 

Buddy. 
[Looks after her, pauses, then crosses down to c, 
turns and looks after her again.] Her friend, am I? 
[Pauses, straightens up defiantly.] Now, Major 
Kellicott, I'm ready fer you. If you do her dirt, I'll 
break you, break you wit' me two hands like a rotten 
stick. I'll break you and throw you at her feet ! 

[Music swells as the Curtain falls slowly. 

[Second Picture: — Buddy has crossed to the door of 
the house and stands looking off stage into house. 

[Third Picture: — All the characters that have ap- 
peared in the first act are discovered bowing to 
the audience. 

[Fourth Picture: — Curtain calls taken by Buddy and 
Mary. 



ACT II 

SCENE. — The same as in Act I. The table down 
R. c. is covered with a cloth long enovigh to 
conceal anyone hiding under the table. Lights 
the same as in Act I. Jim Anthony is dis- 
covered at c. and a male quartet is grouped 
around the stage. Before the curtain rises the 
quartet sings some popular chorus, the curtain 
rising on the last line. 

As the curtain rises Jim may introduce a popular song 
with the other men singing the chorus with him. 
One verse and two choruses are enough. At 
the end of this number Maudelia enters from 
Rear l. earring a small fish on a string. 

Maudelia. 
[Coming down c] Say, do any of you men want 
to buy a fish ? [Shows it to them. 

Jim. 
I don't think we want to buy any fish to-day. 

Maudelia. 

It's an awful nice fish. Look at him wiggle, and 
ain't he big? 

Jim. 

[At R. c] He's a regular whale. Where did you 

get him ? 

Maudelia. 
In the water. Where did you think I got him, in 
an apple tree ? 

43 



44 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
And did you catch him ? 

Maudelia. 
I'll tell the world I caught him. I'll catch some- 
thing else, too, when mom finds me. 

Jim. 

Why? 

Maudelia. 
'Cause I ran away from the nurse and went 
a-fishin'. Tore my dress, too, and I got a hole in my 
stocking. Say, is lunch over yet ? 

Jim. 
Sure. You're about half an hour late. 

Maudelia. 
And I'm hungrier than a mud turtle, too. I'm holler 
clean from here [Touches head.] down to here. 
[Touches feet.] I guess I'll have to eat the fish. 

Jim. 
Maybe if you go into the kitchen the cook will 
give you a hand-out. 

Maudelia. 
She'll gimme a hand-out all right, but it'll be a 
push. The cook is sore at me ever since I put the two 
kittens in her bread dough. She says I'm a little 
terror, and I guess she's right. 

Jim. 
Why, I think you're a real nice little girl. 



SUNSHINE 45 

Maudelia. 
Say, where do you get that stuff? You're a new 
one here, ain't you ? 

Jim. 
Just came last night. 

Maudelia. 
What you got? High blood pressure, sciatic 
rheumatism or neurasthenia? My mom's had all of 
'em. I'll bet she's had more things than anyone 
else in the Sanitarium. What are you here for ? 

Jim. 
[Laughs.\ I'm here just for instance. 

Maudelia. 
What's instance, some new kind of an operation? 
Don't tell mom, or she'll think she's got it. 

Jim. 
If you want any lunch you'd better hurry along. 

Maudelia. 
I bet I know who you are. You're the goof who 
came tip here to marry Miss Deane, ain't you? 

[Men laugh. 

Jim. 
Well, I guess I am. 

Maudelia. 
Did you give her a ring ? 

Jim. 

Sure. 



46 SUNSHINE 

Maudelia. 
How much did it cost ? 

Jim. 
Oh, a heap of money. 

Maudelia. 
Is it that big diamond one she wears all the time ? 

Jim. 
Yes, I think so. 

Maudelia. 
Mom told old Mis' Whipple that she bet it cost 
every cent of a thousand. Did it? 

Jim. 
Something like that. 

Maudelia. 

Do you ever make love to Miss Deane in front of 
other people ? 

Jim. 
Not if I can help it. Why? 

Maudelia. 
Say, I'll give you this here fish for nothing, if you'll 
let me see you and her make love. 

Jim. 
Why do you want to see us? 

Maudelia. 
I want to get some practice, that's why. 

Jim. 
I'm sorry, but I don't think I can oblige you. 



SUNSHINE 47 

Maudelia. 
Not even for the fish? 

Jim. 

Not even for the fish. 

Maudelia. 
That's just the way, folks never do anything to 
obHge me, and how do you suppose I'll know how 
to act when I get proposed to, if I never have 
any practice? {Places the fish on the table. ^ Say, 
who was singing when I came up the hill ? 



Jim. 

Maudelia. 
Jim. 



We all were. 

I can sing, too. 

You can? 

Maudelia. 
I'll tell the world. Want to hear me try? 

Jim. 
Sure. Go ahead, if you're not too bashful. 

Maudelia. 
There ain't a bashful bone in my body. Listen. 
[Song introduced. At the end of the song 
the men go out at R. Maudelia catches 
the last man and brings him down c. 

Man. 
What's the big idea? 



48 SUNSHINE 

Maudelia. 
Say, do you think he's coming back here and make 
love to Miss Deane? 

Man. 
It's very Hkely. 

Maudelia. 
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to 
get under there [Points to table. ] and hear how they 
do it. [Man laughs and exits at r.] It's a good 
place to hide from mom, too. [Crawls under the 
table.] I'm just like an Indian in my little tent. 

[Nurse Gregory wheels in Butternip from 

R. 2. 

Butternip. 
Don't jar me. Go easy, I tell you. The least 
little jar makes me see stars and causes my ears to 
ring. 

Nurse. 
I'm not jarring you. If you don't be good you 
shan't have your tonic. 

Butternip. 
Who says I shan't? [She wheels him to table and 
stands back of table.] How do you ever expect me 
to get well without my tonic ? Seems like it's been a 
year since I had the last one. 

[She pours tonic in small glass. 

Nurse. 

Now, don't be impatient. A little of that goes a 
long way. 



SUNSHINE 49 

BUTTERNIP. 

\Dnnhs it.'l I'll say it does. I can feel it tingling 
clear down to my toes. 

Nurse. 
\Crosses to Rear l.] I wonder what's become of 
Maudelia. Her mother is getting so worried. I 
think I'll walk down to the beach, if you don't mind. 
I'll be back in five minutes. That child is always 
getting lost. [Exits at Rear l. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Never saw such a Sanitarium in all my life. Only 
let me have a tonic once every two hours. [Looks 
around.] She's gone. Guess I'll take another tonic. 
[Pours small glassful of tonic and drinks it, smack- 
ing his lips.] Fifty-nine percent, eh? Whoo, it's 
got a kick like a bee-stung mule. 

[Enter Tessie from r. 2. 

Tessie. 
[Comes quickly to Butternip.] Shh ! She says 
they're after you. Now is the time to escape. The 
police are in the house. 

Butternip. 
Wow ! I thought you were the nurse. 

Tessie. 
I have sent a letter for aid. Do you know how I 
sent word to them? 

Butternip. 
I can't even guess. 

Tessie. 
I sent it by a carrier pigeon. I couldn't get a 



so SUNSHINE 

pigeon so I sent it by Mrs. Whipple's poll-parrot 
Amelia. Ha, ha. I've outwitted them. Amelia flew 
away and soon relief will be at hand. She says you'd 
better leave at once. The police are after you. 
Don't tell anyone I told you. Shhh! \CYosses to 
R. 2.] Shh ! Amelia flew out of the window and I'm 
going to get in her cage and take her place to ward 
off suspicion. Shhh! Not a word. [Exit, R. 

BUTTERNIP. 

If the doctors hear her raving like that they'll put 
her in close confinement. Guess I'll have another 
tonic. That woman's got me so excited. [Drinks.'\ 
My, that's an awful taste. Worst taste I ever tasted. 
Guess I'll have another to take the taste outa my 
mouth. [Pours tonic in glass and drinks.] Mosht 
peculiar tonic. [Makes a horrible grimace.] Yesh, 
you are, old tonic; you're the mosht peculiar tonic I 
ever tonicked since I've been tonicking. Makes my 
mouth feel as dry as a chip. Guess I'll have anuzzer. 
[Starts to take bottle. Maudelia pulls table-cloth 
a little, causing the bottle to slide away from him:] 
Hold still, old bottle. Wash ma'r with zhat bottle? 
I know whash ma'r wish It. It'sh full o' tonic. And 
I'm full o' tonic, too, and when anyshing is full o' 
tonic dash as strong as that tonic, it's bound to 
wobble. [Sees fish.] There's a fish, too. I got 
'em. I shee fishes and tonics and everything. 
(Maudelia raises her shoulders, causing the table to 
move up and down. ] Help ! Help ! Ghoshts ! 

[Jumps up and rushes wildly out at r., yelling. 

Maudelia. 
[Crawls out.] Wasn't that funny? [Laughs.] I 
guess he won't drink so much tonic next time. I 



SUNSHINE 51 

ain't going to wait for that man to make love no 
longer. I'm too hungry. It's me for the kitchen. 

\Exit at R., with the fish. Nurse Gregory 
enters from Rear l. 

Nurse. 
Mr. Butternip! Goodness, where is he? [Comes 
to table.] He couldn't walk by himself. What's 
become of him? [Sees bottle.] Oh, ho! That's 
it, is it? [Takes bottle and glass.] I'll have to tell 
the doctor at once. 

[Enter Major Kellicott from Rear l. 



Ah, nurse ! 




Major. 


Yes, sir? 




Nurse. 


Will you ask 
moment ? 


Mr. 


Major. 

Anthony to step out here a 



Nurse. 
Excuse me, sir. I'm a nurse, not a messenger 
boy. [Crosses to door r.] It's only fifty feet from 
here to Mr. Anthony's room. [Exit at r., into house. 

Major. 
Impudent! I must manage to get back to the city 
to-morrow. This place is too dead for me. But 
first there's the little chicken to be plucked, and 
maybe I can pick up a little other business on the 
side. [At L. 

[Enter Jim and Sylvia from house at r. 2. 



52 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
Ah, Major, I was looking for you. Dear, let me 
present Major Kellicott of New York. 

Major. 
[Shaking hands with Sylvia.] This is a pleasure. 

Sylvia. 
Jim has been telling me about you, Major. I'm 
glad he's decided to go into business. I want him to 
be a regular business man. 

Jim. 
[At R.] I'm afraid I'll be an awful dub in New 
York. All I know is farming. 

Major. 
[At I..C.] You've made a wonderful success with 
your farms, I hear. 

Sylvia. 
[At R. c] Yes, that's true. But we've decided to 
live in the city, haven't we, Jim? 

Jim. 
Just as you say. 

Major. 
You are perfectly right. We city men are always 
glad to see new young men enter our fields. I know 
all about your success in farming, Mr. Anthony, and 
I promise you I'll do all I can for you in the city. 
My partner, Mr. Magee, was speaking of you only 
last week, after he met you at the club. 

Sylvia. 
Mr. Silas N. Magee? 



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Major. 
Of course, there's only one Mr. Magee in New 
York. 

Sylvia. 
Fve seen his pictures in the magazines. And you 
are his partner ? 

Jim. 

It's one of the biggest firms in New York, honey. 

Major. 
Listen. I know a certain reliable business firm 
that wishes to increase its capital. It desires to en- 
large its interests. Now you have the capital and if 
you come in with this firm it would buy up Santa 
Fe, which is flooding the market at 6i, and I know 
from inside information that in one week's time it 
will reach loi. 

Sylvia. 
Wonderful. 

Jim. 

A return of profits amounting to forty cents on 
the dollar. 

Major. 
Would you like to take Santa Fe ? 

Jim. 

I — er — I don't know. Would we have to go there 
to live? 

Major. 
Santa Fe, you understand, is a railroad stock. 
Bonds, you know. 



54 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
\To Sylvia.] Oh, it's bonds, Sylvia. 

Sylvia. 
I've always heard that bonds were good invest- 
ments. 

Major. 
If you care to come in with us we'll double your 
investment in a year. 

Jim. 
You mean that there is an opening for me with the 
Magee, Kellicott Company? 

Major. 
If you will put into the firm an amount equal to 
our investments, you can become an equal partner. 

Jim. 
A partner with Magee and Kellicott? 

Sylvia. 
\Tdkes Jim's arm.\ Oh, Jim, that's wonderful. 

Jim. 
I'll say it is. 

Major. 
We*d change the firm name to Magee and Part- 
ners. 

Jim. 
And I*d be one of the partners ? 

Major. 
Exactly. How does the idea strike you? 



SUNSHINE 55 

Jim. 
Like a derrick. How much would I have to 

squander ? 

Major. 

Squander ? 

Jim. 
No, no; I mean invest? I'll put in every cent I'm 
worth. 

Major. 
Forty thousand dollars will let you in on the ground 
floor. 

Jim. 
ril go to New York with you to-morrow. 

Major. 
I'll just draw up the necessary papers here in the 
office of the Sanitarium. We can arrange it all right 
here. I'll have them ready for you in fifteen or 
twenty minutes. 

Jim. 
[Shakes hands with him.] I don't know how to 
thank you. 

Major. 
That's all right, my boy. I'm always glad to wel- 
come young blood into the business. I flatter myself 
that I'm a good judge of men. I always have been. 
And I'm perfectly satisfied with our new partner. 

Jim. 
Gosh, I feel as if I'd ought to do something to 
celebrate. 



56 SUNSHINE 

Sylvia. 
There isn't anything to do up here, but to go down 
the mountain to the country store and squander five 
cents for an ice-cream cone. 

Major. 
[Takes papers from wallet.] And in the mean- 
time ril draw up some sort of a contract. 

Sylvia. 
[Crosses to him.] I want to thank you, Major 
KeUicott, for all you're going to do for us. 

[Shakes hands with him. 

Major. 
Thank you, Miss Deane, it's a great pleasure. 
[Looks at her hand.] What a wonderful ring! 

Sylvia. 
Yes, isn't it? It's the prettiest solitaire I've ever 
seen. 

Major. 
Jim has wonderful taste, in rings as well as girls. 

Sylvia. 
Oh, Major! 

Jim. 
[At Rear l.] We'd better hurry. 

Sylvia. 
[Rings hand-hell on table.] I'll have to tell the 
nurse where I'm going. 

[Music: Chorus of " Mother Machree " played 
softly and slowly. Mary enters from house 
at R. 2 and stands in doorway, not seeing 
the Major, who is seated at table, l. c. 



SUNSHINE 57 

Mary. 
Yes? 

Sylvia. 
Oh, Sunshine, just tell the matron that Jim and I 
are going down to the village. 

Mary. 

Yes, Miss Deane. 

[Sylvia takes Jim's arm and they go out at 
Rear l. Mary starts out at r. Major, 
who started at her voice, rises and speaks in 
a commanding tone. 

Major. 
Mary! [Comes toward her. 

Mary. 
[Shrinks from him in fear.] Don't — don't touch 
me. I must go. 

Major. 
So this is where you have been hiding for three 
years? You might have known I'd find you some 
day. [Grasps her wrist.] What are you doing 
here? 

Mary. 
I'm — I'm here as a nurse. [End music. 

Major. 
A nurse. [Drops her wrist and sneers.] A fine 
nurse! [Pause.] Well, what have you got to say? 

Mary. 
Nothing. I must go in. I am working in the 
operating room. 



58 SUNSHINE 

Major. 
You'll go in when I say you can. I want to have 
a few words with you, my girl. 

Mary. 
ril not listen to you. I'll call for help 



Major. 
\Grasps her wrist. \ You'll not call for help. 
Have you forgotten who you are and who I am ? 

Mary. 
\Crosses and sinks in chair at R. of table.] No, 
God help me, no. I'd give the world to forget. Why 
have you come here ? What do you want with me ? 

Major. 
I've come to take you away. 

Mary. 
Away! 

Major. 
[At L. of table.] 1 want you to come back to New 
York with me. I have a little job for you, 

Mary. 
[Toneless, despair.] No — no — I can't do it. [Sud- 
denly and passionately.] Oh, go away, leave me 
alone. I'm so happy here. Don't take me away. 
[5'o&.f.] Don't take me away. 

Major. 
I suppose you'd rather stay here and drudge your- 
self out as a servant in a Sanitarium. 



SUNSHINE 59 

Mary. 
Rather stay here? Yes, I'd rather stay here and 
scrub the floors as a drudge, as a slave, than go with 
you. I'd rather stay here, Hannigan Blake, and keep 
my self-respect, for here I am among friends, friends, 
do you hear, for the first time in my life. 

Major. 
You go in there and get your things and be ready 
to leave with me to-night. 

Mary. 
No, I won't do it. I'm free from you and your way 
of life and I'll never go back — never. I'm going to 
do whatever I please without asking you or anyone. 
I am a woman, and the time has come for me to de- 
clare myself. Henceforth I'm going straight. 

[She has risen on " I won't do it," and stands 
glaring at him across the table. 

Major. 
You forget, my lady, that I'm your father. 

Mary. 
Forget! [Wildly.] Forget? Do you think that 
I could ever forget that ? It's with me the first thing 
in the morning and the last thing at night. For three 
years I've hidden away from you, but I've seen you 
in my dreams, holding me by the hair as you used to 
and beating me, beating me, beating me ! 

[She breaks down and covers her face with 
her hands and sobs. 

Major. 
It was all for your good. But I'll treat you better 
now. ^ I've got a good thing, Mary, and I mean to 
push It. You've got to help me. 



6o SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
No, I won't do it. I won't go away. 

Major. 
You'll do as I say. You're mine, do you hear, as 
much mine now as you were in the old days at the 
mill. [Leans toward her across the table. 

Mary. 

[Straightens up at the word "mill"] The mill! 
You do well to remind me of that. I'm no longer 
the weak little six-year-old that you tore from her 
ragged cot at four o'clock every morning and forced 
to slave like a grown woman in the mill until long 
after nightfall. I was your slave then, for fifteen 
years. But that's all past now, Hannigan Blake. I've 
done with you — done with you forever. 

[Faces him defiantly, their faces close together 
across the table. 

Major. 
Is that the way to speak to your father? 

Mary. 
You're not my father. Thank God there's not one 
drop of your vile blood in my veins. You were my 
master, I was your slave, just as my mother had been 
your slave before me. Ever since I was six years 
old, and before, I've worked for you, slaved for you, 
even stole for you. Father! you who used to take 
my pitiful earnings from my baby hands ! You who 
beat me when I cried because I was faint for food 
and want of sleep. [Grimly.] Well, you'll never 
beat me again, Hannigan Blake. You killed all the 
childhood in me, and the girlhood, but I'm my own 
mistress at last. When the other children at the mill 



SUNSHINE 6 1 

went to their decent dances and picnics you made me 
stay at home and beg for you. Every day for fifteen 
years for nine hours a day I worked for you bUndly 
like a dumb creature on a machine, hating you, hating 
myself, hating life. Sometimes in the middle of the 
night I'd start up with a scream and long to die. 
For fifteen years I was your slave. Then — I got — 
away. 

Major. 

And see what you've come to. Here I am rolling 
In riches and you, you're a trained nurse. 

Mary. 
Yes, and this life has been the happiest I have ever 
known. I'm with people who care for me, I'm liv- 
ing straight and honest, and I have my own self- 
respect. Why, I wouldn't go back with you, no, not 
for all the money on Broadway. 

Major, 
Suppose I were to tell them who you were; sup- 
pose I were to tell them what you were. 

Mary. 
Do it ! They'd have you arrested for your pains. 
I have told them everything. Go and leave me alone. 
I never want to see you again. 

Major. 
I tell you I need you, my girl, and I'm going to 
get you. Understand? I'm going to get you! 

Mary. 
You are not! I am a woman now, not the weak, 
shrinking girl you once knew, but a woman with 
friends who care for me and who will protect me. 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from r. 2. 



62 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
Sunshine, have you seen anything of little Maud- 
elia ? I can't find her anywhere. 

Mary. 
No, I haven't seen her. I'll look up-stairs in the 
Infirmary. {Crosses to r. 

Major. 
I'll see you again before I leave to-night. 

Mary. 
I don't think I'll ever see you again. [To Nurse.] 
Find the new nurse and send her to the operating 
room. Tell her to have everything hot and to put 
out the new ether cones. It wants fresh carbolic and 
plenty of sponges. [Exits at r. 

Major 
Who is that high and mighty person. Nurse ? 

Nurse. 
That's Miss Ray, the head nurse, sir. 

Major. 
H'm ! I thought she was someone I used to know, 
but I guess I was mistaken. [Crosses to r. 2.] Is 
there any place around here where I can find some 
writing material ? 

Nurse. 
Yes, sir. In the Superintendent's office. One of 
the internes Is there now. 

Major. 
Very good. [Exit at r. 2, into house. 



SUNSHINE 63 

Nurse. 
I simply can't stand that man. I wonder who he 
is. 

[Wheels the wheel-chair off at R. Enter 
Buddy from Rear l. He comes domn c. 

Buddy. 
[Looks around.] Nobody here. Vm all dressed 
up and there's no place to go. I wonder where Sun- 
shine is. Gee, she's a nice girl. Jim's down there 
with Sylvia buying out the grocery store and all the 
girls is paired off with all the boys. All except me. 
I'm lonesome, I guess. [Sits on the table.] Nobody 
seems to care whether I come or go. I'm like the guy 
who was just a lonesome little dewdrop looking for 
a place to fall. [Song may he introduced here simi- 
lar to '' I'm a Lonesome Little Dewdrop," from the 
" Greenwich Village Follies," or it may he omitted at 
the discretion of the actor.] I wish it was time fer 
me operation, then I'd see Sunshine again. Gee, 
she's a nice girl. 

[Sits at L. Enter Tessie from the house 
at r. 2. 

Tessie. 
[In doorway.] Shh ! 

Buddy. 
[Starts.] What's the matter? 

Tessie. 
I've been looking for you. [Comes to c. 

Buddy. 
For me? What for? [Rises. 



64 SUNSHINE 

Tessie. 
Shh ! Have they found a clue yet ? 

Buddy. 
[Puzzled.] A clue? A clue to what? 

Tessie. 
[In a loud whisper.] To the murder. 

Buddy. 
[Sinks in chair at l.] What murder? 

Tessie. 
I thought you were the detective on the lookout 
for a clue. Right there was where the body was 
found. [Points at his chair. 

Buddy. 
[Nervously.] Right where? 

Tessie. 
Seated in that very chair. [Buddy jumps up.] 
But they never found the knife. [Goes to him.] 
Tell me, do you wear suspenders? 

Buddy. 
No. Why? 

Tessie. 
One of the detectives thought he might have been 
strangled with your suspenders. But that isn't pos- 
sible if you haven't any. 

Buddy. 
I'll say it ain*t. He wasn't strangled with my sus- 
penders. 



SUNSHINE 65 

Tessie. 
Don't move; keep cool. In a terrible affair like 
this one should always keep cool. Put some cracked 
ice on your head and then they will never suspect 
you. There is only one way to escape, through the 
cellar. I've bored a hole through the floor of the 
Infirmary and I whispered my message to the parrot 
and let her escape through the window. Mrs. 
Whipple's poll-parrot Amelia has carried the mes- 
sage and soon assistance will arrive. We must find 
the clue. 

Buddy. 
What clue ? Who was murdered ? 

Tessie. 
I have my suspicions, but I can't tell you anything 
yet. I must go. It's time for me to shoot fire- 
crackers at the diet cook. Shh ! Don't try to fol- 
low me, for you are watched. \Crosses to door. 

Buddy. 
[Comes to c] Say, what is this? A movie show 
rehearsal, or what? 

Tessie. 
She says that everything is discovered and you 
must escape at once. At once. At once. 

{Exit into the house at R. 

Buddy. 
\Paiises, then looks at the audience.] Say, I'll 
bet a doughnut I'm in the wrong kind of a Sani- 
tarium. [Enter Jim from rear l. 

Jim. 
Hello, Buddy. 



66 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
[Meeting him at c] Say, do you wear sus- 
penders ? 

Jim. 
[At L. c] Suspenders? 

Buddy. 
[At R. c] One of the detectives thought he might 
have been strangled with your suspenders. But that 
isn't possible if you haven't any. 

Jim. 
The boy's delirious. 

Buddy. 
Put some cracked ice on your head and then they 
will never suspect you. Shh ! Don't try to follow 
me, for you are watched. It's time for me to shoot 
firecrackers at the diet cook. 

Jim. 
What's the big idea? 

Buddy. 
Oh, I'm all right, but I'm beginning to feel like 
a squirrel. 

Jim. 

A squirrel? 

Buddy. 
That's the time. I just found a nut out here. 

Jim. 
Oh, I see. You've met one of the neurasthenics. 



SUNSHINE 67 

Buddy. 
I dunno what you call her, but she's got it bad. 
Where's your fi-nan-say? 

Jim. 
She met a crowd of girls and they insisted on buy- 
ing her an engagement treat. I began to feel un- 
necessary and thought I'd wait here for her. Say, 
she's some queen, ain't she, Buddy? 

Buddy. 
You're right, she is. You're some fancy little 
picker when it comes to fi-nan-says. 

Jim. 
Have you seen anything of Major Kellicott? 

Buddy. 
No, and I ain't anxious for no little suburban pic- 
nics with him, either. There's something about that 
bird I don't like. 

Jim. 
Oh, he's all right. He's one of the biggest business 
men in New York City. 

Buddy. 
That may be true, but I'm going to keep my little 
pile locked up with a padlock and chain whenever 
he's around. I don't like the color of his hair. 

Jim. 
Why, he's one of the richest and best known 
brokers in the city, Major Kellicott is. 



68 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
How do you know this guy is really Major Kelli- 
cott? 

Jim. 

Why, I saw his calling card. He gave me one 
when he introduced himself. \Laughs.\ It isn't 
like you to be so suspicious, Buddy. I'd trust Major 
Kellicott with every cent I'm worth. 

Buddy. 
You'd better go kinda slow with them cents. Don't 
do anything in a hurry. I've got to go in now and 
rest up a little for my operation. 

Jim. 
Oh, that ! You won't have to rest much. It won't 
take ten minutes. 

Buddy. 
Maybe not, but a lot of things can happen in ten 
minutes. Why, a feller could get killed or sump'm 
in only one minute. 

Jim. 
You're not afraid, are you? 

Buddy. 
No, not afraid, but I don't want to take any un- 
necessary chances. 

Jim. 
You'd better take ether, then. 

Buddy. 
Either of what? 



SUNSHINE 69 

Jim. 
Just one whiff of ether and you won't know what's 
happening. 

Buddy. 
Oh, you mean that dizzy stuff. Say, that's a good 
idea, I never thought of that. I'd better go in. 

\Crosses to r. Enter Mrs. Whipple from 
the house, carrying a parrot's cage. She is 
very excited. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Oh, mister, AmeHa's gone! Have you seen any- 
thing of her out here ? 

Buddy. 
No AmeHas out here. 

Jim. 
Have you lost someone? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
My little poll-parrot. She was green with a yel- 
low tail. Mr. Whipple gave her to me before he 
died. Someone has allowed her to escape. Her cage 

was open — the window was open — and 

[Walking up and down stage from front to 
hack at R., wringing her hands and speaking 
in an excited manner. 

Buddy. 
[At R. c] Amelia was open too? 

[Follows her up and down stage. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Crosses to Rear l., and looks off stage.] I 
ouldn't take a thousand dollars for Amelia. She 



70 SUNSHINE 

was just as intelligent as a human being. {Starts up 
and down stage at l,] And now she's flown away. 
Oh, my nerves, my nerves! However can I live 
without Amelia! 

[Enter Mrs. McCann from house. She is 
very excited. 

Mrs. McCann. 
{Rushes to Buddy at r. c. and grasps his arm.] 
Have you seen her ? I can't find her anywhere. 

Buddy. 
No, that other lady was just telling me she had 
got out. 

Mrs. McCann. 
She went down to the shore with Nurse Marjorie. 
And no one can find her. She's drowned, I know. 
My baby's drowned. 

[Starts to walk up and down at R., wringing 
her hands. Mrs. Whipple is doing the 
same business at L., followed by Jim, who 
tries to calm her. 

Buddy. 
[Following Mrs. McCann.] Your baby? Was 
she your baby? 

Mrs. McCann. 
Yes, my only child. My heart is breaking. My 
mother's heart is breaking. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
{To Jim.] It's no use. You can't comfort me. 
ril never see her again. 



SUNSHINE 71 

Buddy. 
Were you its mother ? 

Mrs. McCann. 
Of course I am. Oh, I'm distracted, distracted ! 

[Paces up and down. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Where can I find another? Where can I find an- 
other? [Paces up and down. 

Buddy. 
[To Mrs. McCann.] What did she look Hke? 

Jim. 
[To Mrs. Whipple.] Describe her and I will help 
you hunt. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Oh, she had long brown curls ! 

Buddy. 

Curls? 

Mrs. Whipple. 

She was nineteen years old and had a dear little 
red beak. 

Mrs. McCann. 
She wore a white dress and blue ribbons. 

Buddy. 
Where did she wear the ribbons? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She was green and her tail was yellow. 



72 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
\To Mrs. McCann.] She was green and her tail 
was yellow. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Tail? The man's a raving lunatic. She wore a 
little blue and white hat. 

Jim. 
\To Mrs. Whipple.] She wore a httle blue and 
white hat. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Hat? What are you talking about? 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from house at r. 

Nurse. 
What's the excitement? 

Mrs. McCann. 
She's been lost. 

Nurse. 
Who's lost? 

Buddy. 

Amelia. 

Mrs. McCann. 
You mean Maudelia. My little girl. 

Buddy. 
She was green and her tail was yellow. 

Mrs. McCann. 
He's raving. Put him in the confined ward. 



SUNSHINE 73 

Mrs. Whipple. 
My parrot is lost. [Comes to Nurse.] Have you 
seen her? Someone let her out of the cage. She's 
gone. I'll never see her again. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Your parrot ? What's a parrot ? My little girl is 
lost. Drowned. Maybe kidnapped. 

[Enter Maudelia from house at R. 

Maudelia. 
No, I'm not, mom. Here I am. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Clasps her in her arms.\ My darling! 

Buddy. 
[At L., to Jim.] Green body and a yellow tail. 
[Laughs.] Whatcha know about that? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
We are wasting time. Amelia must be found. 

Maudelia. 
I saw her fly over there. [Points to Rear l. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[To Jim.] Will you help me find her? She's all 
I have to remember my husband by. 

Maudelia. 

[At Rear l., looks off.] There she is. Up in that 
tree. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Get her. Catch her. [Rushes off. 



74 SUNSHINE 

Mrs. McCann. 
Can you climb a tree? \To Jim.] Maybe you 
can get her down. 

\Runs out at l. with Maudelia and Jim. 

Buddy. 
[Calls after them.] Put some salt on her tail. 

Nurse. 
You'd better keep quiet. Doctor Downs will be 
ready for you in a few minutes. [Exits at Rear l. 

Buddy. 
Gee, I was forgetting all about me sub-mucous in- 
fection. [Sits at L.] I wonder what's become of 
Sunshine. 

[Enter Mary from r., coming from the house. 

Mary. 
I was looking for you. 

Buddy. 
[Meets her at c] I've been looking for you ever 
since I first saw you. Gee, it's been awful lonesome 
all by myself. 

Mary. 
The doctor will be ready for you in a few minutes. 
I've arranged the sponges and the ether cones. 

Buddy. 
Say, what is this ether stuff anyway? 

Mary. 
You just hold it to your nose and take a long 
breath and that's all you remember until the doctor 
says, " Wake up ! '* 



SUNSHINE 75 

Buddy. 
I won't mind it at all, if you're going to be there 
with me. 

Mary. 
I'll be right there. It's really not much of an 
operation. The doctor says you have a high blood 
pressure, too. 

Buddy. 
Does my blood press ? 

Mary. 
And the sub-mucous infection has made your 
tongue swollen. 

Buddy. 
It wasn't the infection that made me tongue swell. 

Mary. 
What was it? 

Buddy. 
\Laughs.\ I ate a club sandwich and got a couple 
of splinters out of the club. 

Mary. 
\Laughs.\ Nothing ever troubles you, does it? 

Buddy. 
I don't let it. And you ain't as blue as you was 
this morning, are you? 

Mary. 
No, I'm all right, I guess. 

Buddy. 
That bird Kellicott scared you, didn't he? 



76 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
Yes, he did. What's he doing up here? 

Buddy. 
He's trying to interest me pal Jim Anthony in some 
New York business deal. 

Mary. 
You take my advice and tell your pal to have noth- 
ing to do with him. 

Buddy. 
He ain't straight, is he ? 

Mary. 
Straight? That man's so crooked that when he 
dies they'll have to bury him in a bass drum. 

Buddy. 
Has he seen you? 

Mary. 
Yes. 

Buddy. 
He didn't say anything to you, did he ? He didn't 
cut up rough? 

Mary. 
He wanted me to go to the city with him and I 
refused. 

Buddy. 
Gee, I'm glad you refused. He — he — ain't got no 
claim on you, has he? I mean, you ain't married to 
him, or nothing like that ? 



SUNSHINE 77 

Mary. 
No, nothing like that. He has no claim on me at 
all. I never want to speak to him again; I never 
want to see him again as long as I live. 

Buddy. 
I think he's trying to get Jim to invest some money, 
er sump'm. 

Mary. 
Yes, that's one of his tricks. You warn your 
friend to have nothing to do with him. He's a 
crook, an ex-convict. 

Buddy. 
You bet ril warn Jim. I'll tell him to-night. 

Mary. 
I suppose you'll be leaving to-morrow ? 

Buddy. 
Yeah, I guess so. I kinda hate to leave this place. 
There's lots of attractions here. Maybe I'll stay on 
two or three days in case I have any more of them 
sub-mucous infections. 

Mary. 
Then you like it here? 

Buddy. 
Do I? Gee, why three or four days here and I'd 
be living the life of Reilly. Like it? Why, I'm sit- 
ting on the world right now. I like the Sanitarium 
and the patients and the doctors and the nurses. I 
never saw such fine nurses in all my life. 



78 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
Do you tell that to all the girls you meet? 

Buddy. 
[Laughs bashfully.] No'm, I don't. You ain't 
got my number at all. The only girl almost I ever 
talked to in me life was me mother. I'm jest 
naturally bashful, I guess. Why, whenever I hear a 
skirt rustle on the street I always run into a pool-hall 
or a cigar store, or some place where they won't let 
'em in. But somehow it's different with you. Say, 
what's your name ? 

Mary. 
My name is Mary. Mary Ellis. 

Buddy. 
Mary ! Gee, that's a nice name. That's the nicest 
name I ever heard. Mary, it makes you think of 
church and music and everything that is good and 
holy. It's a nice name, Mary is. 

Mary. 
I think it's time for you to go up-stairs now. 

[Crosses to r. 

Buddy. 
Are you going with me? [Crosses to r. 

Mary. 
Yes. I administer the ether. 

Buddy. 
If you administer it I wouldn't be skeered to take 
it, even if it was arsenic. 



SUNSHINE 79 

Mary. 

We mustn't keep the doctor waiting. _ 

\Ex%t into house. 

Buddy. 

Gee, she's a nice girl. 

[Exit after her into house at r. Enter Mrs. 
Whipple and Nurse Gregory from Rear l. 

Nurse. 
Be calm, Mrs. Whipple. Maudelia is climbing the 
tree. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
But there's a cat after my parrot. I saw it in the 
tree. Oh, my nerves, my nerves ! 

{Sinks in chair at L. of table. 

Nurse. 
[Back of table.] Never mind. You must be 
quiet, or I'll have to take you inside. You'll have 
to go to bed. 

[Enter Jim from Rear l. He comes down l. 

Jim. 
The kid's up in the tree. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Has she got the cage? 

Jim. 
Sure. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
If she opens the door of the cage Amelia will hop 
right in. 

[Enter Mrs. McCann from Rear l. She 
comes down l. c. 



8o SUNSHINE 

Mrs. McCann. 
In spite of all I could say or do, my baby child 
climbed up in that tree like a monkey. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Has she caught her? Did she get Amelia? 

[Enter Maudelia from Rear l. with cage. 
The cage contains a large, live cat and is 
wrapped in Maudelia's apron. 

Maudelia. 
[Comes down c] There it is. 

[Shows cage concealed in apron, 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Rises.] My little Amelia! You've brought her 
back to me ? You darling child. Here, I'll give you 
a dollar. [Gives it to Maudelia.] Now give me 
my parrot. [Takes cage and removes apron, show- 
ing the cat to the audience.] Why, this is only a cat. 
Where's my Amelia? There's nothing but a cat in- 
side the cage. 

Maudelia. 
Aw, that's all right. Amelia's inside the cat. 

Mrs. Whipple. 

Inside the ! 

[Screams loudly and faints in the chair. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Taking Maudelia and rushing her to R.] You 
ought to be ashamed of yourself. 

[Drags her out at L. 



SUNSHINE 8 1 

Nurse. 

Here. Help me get her into the office. 

[Jim and Nurse lead Mrs. Whipple out at R. 
Enter Sylvia from Rear l. with eight girls 
dressed in light-colored organdies, four com- 
ing from L. and four from r. Sylvia sings 
''Just a Week from To-day," published by 
the Whitmark Music Co., Whitmark Build- 
ing, New York City, and the girls do dance 
steps at rear. Jim enters and sings second 
verse. All sing chorus, and dance off. For 
encore, the orchestra plays a Wedding 
March and a formal wedding scene is panto- 
mimed with Jim as groom, Sylvia as bride, 
a preacher, flower girls, bridesmaids and 
ushers. After the pantomime all sing the 
chorus of the song again and march out. 
This makes a very effective musical number 
and should be given if possible, as it always 
makes a decided impression on any audi- 
ence. All dance out at Rear l. Enter 
Nurse Gregory from the house at r., 
wheeling in Mr. Butternip, who is very 
weak. BuTTERNip is groaning and has his 
head bound up in red flannel and white 
linen. He carries a piece of ice wrapped 
in a towel and is holding it to his head. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Don't jar me. Roll me easy, 'cause this is my last 
day on earth. Ohhh ! 

NuRSE. 
[ Wheeling him to L. front. ] I think you'd be bet- 
ter off in bed. 



82 SUNSHINE 

BUTTERNIP. 

The doctor told me to get out in the air. Oh, IVe 
been in hospitals and Sanitariums for the past ten 
years, but I've never been as low as I am now. My 
feet are like ice and my head is burning up. If I 
close my eyes I see pink elephants fighting blue tigers 
with a star-spangled black background. 

Nurse. 
You know you shouldn't have taken all that tonic. 
It's a wonder it didn't kill you. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Tonic ! Oh, don't ever mention that word in my 

presence again. Fan me ! Oh, my head, my head ! 

I'll bet it's grown seven inches in thirty minutes. Oh ! 

\Leans hack in wheel-chair and closes his eyes. 

Enter Mrs. Whipple from the house at R. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I can't imagine how Amelia got out of her cage. 
It's heart-breaking. She was all I had, and now she's 
gone. [Sohs.\ I'd like to kill that cat. 

[Sits R. of table. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Nurse, for the love of mercy, tell that human 
Niagara falls to keep still. Oh, my head ! 

Mrs. Whipple, 
Poor little Amelia, who could talk just like a hu- 
man being. She was Mr. Whipple's last gift to me. 
And now she's gone ! [Sohs. 

[Enter Jim and Sylvia from Rear l. They 
come down c. 



SUNSHINE 83 

Jim. 
Nurse, have you seen anything of Major Kellicott? 

Nurse. 
Yes, sir. He's writing in the office. Here he 
comes now. 

[Enter Major from the house. He meets 
Jim at c. 

Major. 
Ah, here you are. That's good. I have the papers 
all ready. Of course you understand that these 
papers are a mere formality. The regular papers 
will be prepared later in the presence of our lawyers. 
However, these are legal. They will serve as a re- 
ceipt for your investment. 

[Sits L. of table. Jim stands near him. 

Butternip. 

Oh, this is my last hour on earth. Nurse, get me 

a pillow. Hurry and get me a pillow to ease my 

dying moments. Get me two pillows. Oh, my head. 

[Nurse exits at r., into house. 

Major. 
I have made out a check to my firm. All you have 
to do is to sign the check and take the memorandum 
papers. 

Jim. 
How much is the check for? 

Major. 

Three hundred thousand. See, it's all ready for 
you to sign. 



84 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
\Whxstles.\ Three hundred thousand? Whew! 
That ought to buy out the whole Santa Fe Rail- 
road. 

Major. 
You have that much in the bank, haven't you ? 

Jim. 

Oh, sure. But it's an awful lot of money to sign 
for. 

Sylvia. 

\Near him.] But think of the wonderful oppor- 
tunity. 

Major. 
[Hands Jim a fountain pen.] Will you sign? 

Jim. 
You bet I'll sign. Here's where I soak the Santa 
Fe in the solar plexus. 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from house with a 
large white pillow in her hand. 

Nurse. 
[At Rear c] Mr. Brady is having an awful time. 

Jim. 
[Pauses.] His operation? 

Nurse. 
Oh, that was all right, but he's under the influence 
of the ether. He's in the hall down-stairs and he's 
acting like a crazy man. First he laughs and then 
he cries. I never saw anyone so affected by ether 
before. 



SUNSHINE 85 

Major. 
Sign right there, on that Hne. 

[Jim signs. " Hurry " music. Enter Buddy 
from the house at r. He enters rapidly, 
speaks loudly, rapidly and almost incoher- 
ently. 

Buddy. 
And the green grass grows all round, all round, 
and the green grass grows all around. 

Nurse. 
[Catches him.] You must come up-stairs again, 
Mr. Brady. 

Buddy. 
IVe been taking ether, and the green grass grows 
all around. [Szmngs Nurse as for a dance.] Fm 
going round and round and round. [Comes down to 
Jim.] Sunshine is everywhere and I've got my full 
share. 

Major. 
[To Jim.] Here is the contract, give me the check. 

Buddy. 
Give me the check. [Takes the check and the 
contract and tears them in little hits.] See the snow. 
[Sings to tune of " London Bridge is Falling Down," 
as he scatters the hits of paper like snow.] See the 
snow is falling down, falling down, falling down. 
See the 

Nurse. 
[Grasps his arm and tries to pidl him to r.] Come, 
you must go in. You must ! 



86 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
[Kisses the Nurse.] Hello, Sunshine. Did you 
come out to see the snow-storm ? 

[Seizes the pillozv from her and throws it at 
BuTTERNiP who has risen and is watching 
the scene anxiously. The pillow hits him 
and he topples over, capsizing the wheel- 
chair. General confusion, 

QUICK CURTAIN 



[Seco7td Picture: — Nurse and Jim are leading 

Buddy off at r. 
[Third Picture: — Everyone who appeared in 

the act stands bowing to the audience. 



ACT III 

SCENE. — The same as the first and second Acts. 
Time, night. Blue shaded lights shine in on the 
stage from l. Lighted Japanese lanterns dress 
the stage. Two golf halls are on the table. 

Dance music takes up the curtain disclosing Jim and 
Sylvia, Buddy and Maudelia, and several other 
couples dancing. Butternip is seated in his 
wheel-chair at L. Buddy dances rather awk- 
wardly. 

Maudelia. 
No, no, this way! [She pidls him around.] Now 
count, one two three and then over that way. Get it ? 

Buddy. 
[Dancing with her.] One, two, three and then 
over. I got it. [Dances and coimts for three meas- 
ures, then humps heavily into Jim.] Oh, I beg your 
pardon. [Stops at R. c. and mops his forehead with 
a red silk handkerchief. ] Whoo, that's hot work. 

Maudelia. 
Am I making you tired? I thought a great big 
man Hke you could dance all night. Come on! 

Buddy. 
[Panting.] Just a minute. Wait till I get me 
second wind. 

[Enter Mrs. McCann from r. 2. She comes 
down c. 

87 



88 SUNSHINE 

Mrs. McCann. 
Why, the Sanitarium is becoming as lively as one 
of Mrs. [Local name.] house-parties. [To Buddy.] 
Aren't you dancing, Mr. Brady? 

Buddy. 
Yes'm, no'm, that is, I was just getting ready to 
start for the home plate. 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Putting her arms around him, in dancing position.] 
Come on, then. I'm just dying to show you the new 
cat-step. 

Buddy. 
[Backing away from her toward Maudelia who is 
down R.] Well, I, — er, — I, 

Mrs. McCann. 
Oh, Maudelia will excuse you. She mustn't 
monopolize the men. She's entirely too young to 
dance, and I'm sure she doesn't know all the new 
steps. [Dancing into his arms.] Come along, the 
music is entrancing. 

Maudelia. 
Go on, Buddy, she'll show you the cat-step. It's 
the best thing she does. Don't mind me, mom, the 
dance will be good for your rheumatism. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Maudelia, whatever are you thinking of? T never 
have the rheumatism. Fortunately that's one afflic- 
tion I am spared. [The dance ends. 



SUNSHINE 89 

Buddy. 
[To Mrs. McCann.] Thank you. I'll tell the 
world you're some dancer for an old lady. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Old lady! Well, you may be a famous baseball 
player, sir, but you certainly are not used to good 
society. [Crosses to R. 2, followed by Buddy. 

Buddy. 
No, I didn't mean that. 

Mrs. McCann. 
That will do. Of course I know I'm not a de- 
butante, but I certainly am not ready for knitting 
needles and a crutch. Old lady ! Well, I like that ! 

[Exits at R. 2 indignantly. 

Buddy. 
Whoo, I kinda got me foot in it, didn't I ? [Down 
to table to Maudelia. ] Your mom certainly got up 
in the air, I'll tell the bleachers. 

Maudelia. 
Aw, what's the difference? [Takes up a golf hall 
from the table.] Say, show me how you pitch your 
sky-rocket. [To others.] You orter see him handle 
a ball. This is the way he pitches a sky-rocket. 

[Hands hall to Buddy. 

Buddy. 
You swing your right arm twice around this way, 
slap it with your left over your head, and shoot her 
at the moon. 

[Illustrates, but does not throw the hall. 



90 SUNSHINE 

Maudelia. 
Now show the folks how you pitch your red-hot 
baby. 

Buddy. 
Aw, that's easy. Rub your ball in the dirt. 
[Illustrates.'\ Twist yerself into a corkscrew, do a 
windmill wid your right and watch it burn. 

[Pretends to throw. 

Maudelia. 
[Takes the other hall from the table.] Is this the 
way? [Imitates him. 

Buddy. 
Sure. You got it the first time. You'll be playing 
on the big league some day. 

Maudelia. 
Aw, you know they won't let girls play. 

Jim. 
By the time you are grown up, Maudelia, girls will 
be doing everything. 

Buddy. 
And everybody. 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Gives a cackling chuckle.] He, he, he. Did you 
hear that? He says girls will be doing everybody. 
Ain't he the funniest feller ! 

Maudelia. 
[Places her golf hall on the table.] Let's see how 
far you can throw. [Leads Buddy to Rear l. and 
they look off and down.] See that great big tree 
way down there. I'll bet you can't hit that. 



SUNSHINE 91 

Buddy. 
Ho, I couldn't miss that with me eyes shut. Keep 
your eye on the tree. 

[Throws ball out and apparently down. 

Maudelia. 
You hit it. Say, mister, you're a wonder [Comes 
down to BuTTERNiP at l. front.] Say, Mr. Butter- 
nip, he hit it. He's some pitcher, I'll tell the world. 
[Chorus boys and girls wander off at r. and l., 
quietly. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Wonderful, perfectly wonderful what the human 
arm can do. 

Maudelia. 
Could you throw a ball like that, Mr. Butternip? 

BUTTERNIP. 

Could I? Well, I should say I could. I used to 
do it even better than that before I came to the 
Sanitarium. 

Maudelia. 
I bet you couldn't toss a high ball like he can. 

Butternip. 
Toss a highball? He, he, he. You bet I could. 
That's the very best thing I ever did was to toss a 
highball. Sometimes I tossed fifteen or twenty of 
'em. Why, sister, I was the champeen highball 
tosser of Peory, Illinois, when I was younger. 

[They talk in pantomime. 

Sylvia. 
[Seated r. of table.] Oh, Jim, my ring! 



92 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
{Seated l. oj table.] What about it? 

Sylvia. 
It isn't on my finger. I must have left it in my 
room. [^Rises. 

Jim. 
Never mind. It's perfectly safe. 

Sylvia. 
[Crossing to R. 2.] I want to make sure. 

[Exits R. 2. 

Buddy. 
[Comes from Rear l., down c. to table.] What's 
become of your financial friend, Jim? 

Jim. 
Oh, the Major? I believe he's in the Sanitarium. 
Want him? 

Buddy. 
I wouldn't take him as a gift. Believe me, pal, he's 
crooked, that guy is. 

Jim. 
Is that why you tore up the check and the con- 
tract ? 

Buddy. 
[Laughs.] Naw, I didn't know what I was doing. 
I was under the influence of ether. 

Jim. 
I don't think you were under any influence at all, 
except suspicion. 



SUNSHINE 93 

Buddy. 
[Laughs.] Maybe it was the sunshine that did it. 
Anyhow he didn't make the deal. I put the kibosh 
on that for Jake. To my way of thinking I saved 
you about three hundred thousand dollars. 

Jim. 
Then you don't think he's on the square? 

Buddy. 
He's seven thousand miles from the square. He's 
so crooked that he lives in the roundhouse. 

Jim. 
What makes you think so ? 

Buddy. 
Oh, I just got a hunch, that's all. 

[Enter Major from R. 2. 

Major. 
[Coming down r.] Ah, Mr. Anthony, enjoying 
the little party in honor of your fiancee, are you? 

Jim. 
Yes, we've been having a little dance out here. 

Maudelia. 
[Down L. with Butternip.] And we're going to 
have ice-cream in the dining-room. 

Major. 
[To Jim.] I intend to leave on the early morning 
train. Hadn't we better settle up our little bit of 
business before I go back to the city? 



94 SUNSHINE 

Jim. 
I think I'll wait and call on you in your office. 

Major. 
There's no time like the present, you know. \Down 
R. of table.] Come, now, all you have to do is to 
sign this check. I made out a new one. 

[Presents fountain pen to Jim. 

Jim. 

[At L. of table,'] I don't think I'll sign it just now, 
Major. 

Major. 
But the shares in our company will be snatched up 
just as soon as I return to town. You don't know 
what a good thing you're missing. 

Buddy. 
[Down c, watching them.] You're going to miss 
a pretty good thing yourself, I'm thinking. 

Major. 
[Angrily.] Fm not addressing my remarks to 
you, sir. 

Buddy. 
That don't hurt my feelings none. I don't care 
if you never address your remarks to me. 

Major. 

[Crosses to him.] I've half a mind to 

[Clenches his fists. 

Buddy. 
[Smiles at him calmly.] You'd better change your 
half a mind. 



SUNSHINE 95 

Major. 
[At c, turns to Jim.] Surely you are not going 
to allow this Bowery boy to influence your judgment, 
Mr. Anthony. 

Jim. 
[Rises and faces Major.] This Bowery boy, as 
you call him, is my pal, my chum. And whatever 
he has to say I'm ready to hear at any time and at 
any place. 

Major. 
But he knows nothing of business, absolutely noth- 
ing. A mere ball player 

Jim. 
Maybe he doesn't know much about business, 
Major Kellicott, but he has the reputation for being 
a pretty good judge of human nature for all that. 

Buddy. 
[At L. c] You tell 'em, old trolley line, you got 
the power. 

Jim. 

I've made up my mind and don't care to discuss 
the matter any longer. 

Major. 
But 

Jim. 
I won't sign the check now, and there's an end to 
it. When you get back to the city 111 come to see 
you with my attorney and we'll investigate your offer 
in the proper place. 



96 SUNSHINE 

Major. 
\Bows to Jim.] Just as you please. {Turns to 
Buddy.] And as for you, sir 

Buddy. 
Shift into low, shift into low, you're running over 
a sandy road. 

Major. 
I won't bandy words with you. 

Buddy. 
That won't make me lose any sleep. 

Major. 
I wish you all a very good evening. [Bows. 

Buddy. 
[Addressing an imaginary person at l. front.] 
Jeems, show the gentleman to his limousine. 

Major. 
[Angrily.] You haven't heard the last of this, sir. 

[Crosses to Rear l. 

Buddy. 
That so? 

Major. 
You'll hear from me again. 

Buddy. 
That's nice. Drop me a picture postcard sometime 
and tell me hov/ the Santa Fe is getting along. 

Major. 
Bah ! [E:t:its at Rear l. 



SUNSHINE 97 

BuDDX. 
He talks like a sheep. 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Down L. to Maudelia.] He, he, he! He said 
" Bah " and he told him he talked like a sheep. Ain't 
he the funniest feller! 

Jim. 
What have you got against the Major, Buddy? 

Buddy. 
I don't like the cut of his necktie, that's all. Take 
it from me, Jim, that bird ain't what he pretends to 
be at all. The trouble with him is that he's got a good 
front but a crooked back. His looks are eight 
cylinder, but there's a screw loose somewhere and 
he's only hittin' on two. In plain words I think he's 
a crook. [Enter Mary from r. 2. 

Mary. 
[Crosses at hack to l.] Your mother is looking 
for you, Maudelia. 

Buddy. 
Gee, the clouds is all faded away and the sun- 
shine's out again. 

Maudelia. 
Sunshine? Why, it's eight o'clock at night. Oh, 
I know, he means you. [To Mary.] Say, is he your 
beau? 

Mary. 
Why, honey, of course not. I never saw him 
before to-day. 



98 SUNSHINE 

Maudelia. 
That don't make no difference. He's a quick 
worker. You ought to see him pitch his red-hot 
baby. 

[Enter Mrs. Whipple from r. She comes 
down R. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I thought I'd better come out and get a breath of 
air, it's stifling in the Sanitarium. [Sees Mary.] 
Why, Mary, you gave me such a shock. 

Mary. 
I gave you a shock ? How ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[At R. front.] When you came out of Miss 
Deane's room about half an hour ago. 

Mary. 
Miss Deane's room? Why, I didn't — did you see 
me come out of Miss Deane's room ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I saw someone. Just as I was starting for the 
dining-room. It was so dark in the hall I couldn't 
make out who it was. 

Mary. 
[At l. front.] But why do you think I came out? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Because whoever it was I followed her and she 
went into your room. 

Mary. 
Are you sure? 



SUNSHINE 99 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Yes. For I struck a match and looked at the 
number on the door. 

Mary. 
But I haven't been in my room this evening. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Well, it was someone. Miss Deane's door opened 
softly and someone slipped out and went sneaking 
down the hall to the nurses' rooms. I followed and 
whoever it was went into your room and locked the 
door. 

Buddy. 
Was it a nurse ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I couldn't tell whether it was man or woman. 

Mary. 

Maybe one of the nurses went in there to rest. 
They often do that. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I thought it might have been a burglar, and my 
nerves haven't recovered yet. [Sinks in chair at r. 
of table.] I don't know when I've been so upset. 

[Enter Nurse Gregory from r. 2. She is 
excited. 

Nurse. 
Oh, Mr. Anthony, Mr. Anthony ! 

Jim. 
[Crosses to her at r. 2.] Yes ? What is it ? 



100 SUNSHINE 

Nurse. 
It's Miss Deane. She wants you to come to her 
at once. 

Jim. 
Is anything wrong? 

Nurse. 
She sent me to find you. " Tell him to come at 
once," she says. She's in the Superintendent's office. 
\Exits at R. 2, followed by Jim. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
My nerves are all unstrung. [Weeps softly.] I'll 
never go in that hall in the dark again if I live to be a 
hundred. I wonder what Miss Deane wanted with 
Mr. Anthony. 

Buddy. 
[At L. of table.] Maybe she wanted him to dance 
the Peruvian Galoo-loo with her, or sump'm. 

Butternip. 
Young fellers are always ready to do anything 
girls want 'em to when they're in love. 

Maudelia. 
[Who has been standing with Mary at Rear l., 
comes down to Mr. Butternip.] Say, Mr. Butter- 
nip, how does it feel to be in love ? 

Butternip. 
Makes you feel like a yaller dog caught stealing 
eggs and one of 'em spoiled. 

Maudelia. 
I know what love is. 



SUNSHINE lOI 

Buddy. 
You do? Well, what is it? 

Maudelia. 
[To BuTTERNiP.] It's the lies you fellows tell us 
girls. [Men laugh. 

Buddy. 
She ain't so far wrong at that. 

Mary. 
Come, Maudelia. 

Maudelia. 
All right, let's go and see what kind of refresh- 
ments they're going to have. Mom said they'd have 
ice-cream, but you can't have any, Mr. Butternip. 

BUTTERNIP. 

Why can't I? 

Maudelia. 

[At R. 2, with Mary.] Because you drank up all 

your tonic. The Doc says you can't have anything 

fancy for a week. [Laughs.] That must have been 

an awfully funny tonic, it made you act so queer. 

[Runs out at R. 2, followed hy Mary. 

Buddy. 
Cute little kid, ain't she ? 

Butternip. 
No, she's not. She's entirely too fresh. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She's spoiled to death. A sanitarium isn't any 
place for a child of her age. 



102 SUNSHINE 

BUTTERNIP. 

I don't like children. They make me so excited. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
You haven't any of your own then? 

BUTTERNIP. 

No, thank the Lord. I'm a bachelor. 

Buddy. 
Then you don't believe in marriage ? 

BUTTERNIP. 

Oh, yes I do. For some folks. 

Buddy. 
I think it's great. I'd get married myself, if I 
could. 

BUTTERNIP. 

What's holding you back? A license only costs a 
dollar and you can get a girl for nothing. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Such sentiments! 

BUTTERNIP. 

For a five dollar bill you can get married and have 
four dollars change to start housekeeping. You can 
live on the w^edding presents for a year. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Much you knov^ about it. 

Buddy. 
If I ever do get married I'm going to have a quiet 
v^edding and no presents. 



SUNSHINE 103 

BUTTERNIP. 
No presents ? Nonsense ; a man who takes pity on 
a woman and marries her is entitled to all of the 
wedding presents he can gouge out of her relatives. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Mercy, how you do talk. 

BUTTERNIP. 

When you figure it up a man exchanges his life 
and liberty for a set of furniture, a parlor rug, six 
rocking chairs, two pair of slippers that don't fit, a 
smoking jacket and a woman's board bill for life. 

Buddy. 
\Seated l. of table.] Then you think marriage is 
a nice easy graft? 

BUTTERNIP. 

[Seated in wheel-chair down l.] Graft? It's a 
bunco. 

Mrs. Whipple. 

And yet they keep building schoolhouses every 
year. 

Buddy. 
Why is it a bunco? 

BUTTERNIP. 

In a few months the rocking chairs break, the 
furniture wears out, your wife breaks the slippers 
over your bean, the smoking jacket is gone, the parlor 
rug is gone, but the wife, she stays on forever. You 
can't lose her. She doesn't wear out. 



104 SUNSHINE 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Then there's the landlord to pay. 

BUTTERNIP. 

And the grocer to pay. 

Buddy. 
And the butcher to pay. 

BUTTERNIP. 

And your wife's mother comes to visit and there's 
the devil to pay. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
Such language ! 

BUTTERNIP. 

Excuse me, I didn't know you were listening. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I wasn't listening, but I couldn't help overhearing, 
could I ? 

Butternip. 
I'm going in. I've got to see the doctor in a hurry. 
[Wheels chair over to R. 2, rapidly. 

Buddy. 
Why the hurry? Are you sick? 

Butternip. 
Nup. Thirsty. 

[Exits at R. 2 in chair. Enter Mrs. McCann 
from R. 2. 

Mrs. McCann. 
What's the matter with that old man ? 



SUNSHINE 105 

Buddy. 
Who? Mr. Buttermilk? He's in a hurry. 

Mrs. McCann. 
\Comes down l.] There's something going on in 
the Superintendent's office. 

Buddy. 
An operation. He's extracting a hundred dollars 
from a rich patient. 

Mrs. McCann. 
No, it's something serious. They've sent for Mary 
and she's in there now. Nurse Gregory knows all 
about it. She'll tell us. She couldn't keep a secret 
if it was nailed in. 

\Enter Nurse Gregory jrom r. 2. 

Mrs. Whipple. 

What's going on in the Superintendent's office, 
nurse? 

Nurse. 
Oh, I can't tell. It's something dreadful. Sun- 
shine just came out and she's crying. She's packing 
up her things. She's going to leave the Sanitarium. 

Buddy. 
\Siarts up.] Sunshine? What have they been 
doing to her? 

Nurse. 
It seems that somebody went into Miss Deane's 
room and stole her diamond ring. 



I06 SUNSHINE 

Mrs. McCann. 
[Down L., in swing.] It wasn't Sunshine. I'll 
stake my life on that. 

Buddy. 
[Down c, standing.] And so will I. Two lives. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Seated R. of table.] They can't make me believe 
it. No matter if someone did slip into her room. 
I know an honest woman when I see one and Sun- 
shine hasn't a dishonest hair in her whole head, I 
know. 

Nurse. 
[At R. 2 entrance.] The Superintendent wants to 
see you in the office, Mrs. Whipple. Mr. Anthony 
said he heard you say that you saw sorneone creep 
out of Miss Deane's room and slip into Sunshine's 
room. 

Mrs. Whipple. 
I did. But it wasn't Mary. 

Nurse. 
How do you know it wasn't ? 

Mrs. Whipple. 
She said it wasn't. 

Nurse. 
She wouldn't say anything at all in the office. She 
just said she didn't do it. Mr. Anthony asked her 
who slipped into her room and she appeared con- 
fused. Anyhow, she wouldn't say another word. 
They're waiting for you. 



SUNSHINE 107 

Mrs. Whipple. 
[Begins to weep.] Oh, I can't go in. It's just 
like being on a witness stand and my nerves are all 
unstrung. Maybe I didn't see anyone at all. Maybe 
it was just my imagination. Oh, I can't stand it, I 
simply can't stand it. 

[Exits R. 2, followed by Nurse. 

Buddy. 
I think rd better go and talk to Jim. I know she 
never stole no diamond ring. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Of course she didn't. But maybe she is trying to 
shield someone who did. 

Buddy. 
She's a girl in a million, she Is. I'd trust her with 
my life. Why, I'd just as soon think me own mother 
was a thief as that she was. 

Mrs. McCann. 
You're not in love with her, are you? 

Buddy. 
[Bashfully twists foot.] I dunno what you call It. 
All I know is that I never met a girl like her before. 
Why, every time I see her I feel like a mule had 
kicked in the left side of me chest. 

[Enter Tessie front r. 2, dramatically. 

Tessie. 
[Comes to r. c. and speaks to Buddy earnestly.] 
She said to tell you to fly at once. Everything has 
been discovered. The police are on your trail. 



I08 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
On my trail ? They don't think I swiped the ring, 
do they? 

Tessie. 
They think you strangled him with your suspend- 
ers. But they haven't found a clue. 

Buddy. 
Oh, you're still after the suspenders? I thought 
it was something else. 

Tessie. 
She says to tell you to fly at once. Everything has 
been discovered. The police are on your trail. 

Mrs. McCann. 
You'd better go back in the dining-room. How 
did you get away ? 

Tessie. 
I climbed down the water spout on a morning glory 
and skated the rest of the way on ice. 

Buddy. 
You'd better climb back up. This ain't no place 
for climbers. 

Tessie. 
They're dancing in the dining-room. I am going 
to climb up on a diamond and watch them. 

Buddy. 
Climb up on a diamond? Say, lady, excuse me, 
but you're a little loose in the gear. 



SUNSHINE 109 

Tessie. 
Didn't you ever see anyone climb up on a dia- 
mond? 

Buddy. 
No, did you? 

Tessie. 
Of course I did. I've seen a jeweler mount a dia- 
mond in his front window. 

Buddy. 
[To audience. \ She ain't crazy, she's just got an 
up-stairs attic for rent, that's all. 

Mrs. McCann. 
Come with me. I'll take you in to see the dancing. 
Come along. [Exits at r. 2. 

Tessie. 
[In doorway at r. 2.] She said to tell you to fly 
at once. 

Buddy. 
Shoo fly ! 

Tessie. 
[Earnestly.] Everything has been discovered. 
The police are on your trail. [Laughs wildly.] Ha, 
ha ! The police are on your trail. [Exits at r. 2. 

Buddy. 
[At L.] Somebody's framed sump'm up on Sun- 
shine. She wouldn't steal a cent if she was starving. 
Why, she's a girl in a million. And they said she 
was going away. Fired, I suppose, and they've tied a 
label of thief on her. The poor little kid, the poor 
little kid. [Soft music: The chorus of "Mother 



1 10 SUNSHINE 

Machree." Mary enters slowly from r. 2 and crosses 
to Rear l. She wears street clothes and hat and 
carries her grip. Take plenty of time crossing the 
stage. Her face expresses grief.] Ain't you even 
going to say good-b^e? [Comes to c. 

Mary. 
[ Turns at Rear l. ] I didn't suppose you'd care to 
speak to me now. Folks won't have anything to do 
with me any more. 

Buddy. 
Is that the kind of a guy you think I am? 

Mary. 
[Takes two steps toward him.] No, I didn't think 
so. You're good and clean and straight, you are. 

Buddy. 
[Takes a step toward her.] And I never desert a 
pal when they're in trouble. I'm going to help you, 
kid, if it takes every cent I've got. I'm your friend 
and I'm going to stand by you till the cows come 
home. 

Mary. 
[Extends her hand.] Thank you, sir. 

Buddy. 
Let's talk the thing over for a minute. Why don't 
you come with me back to the Sup'intendent and ex- 
plain everything? 

Mary. 
Oh, I can't, I can't. You know what happened, 
don't you? Miss Deane's ring has been stolen. Mrs. 
Whipple thought she saw me coming from the room. 



SUNSHINE 1 1 1 

She saw someone slip into my room, and I couldn't 
explain. They think I'm a thief, everyone thinks 
so. And — I — can't — even — explain. {Weeps. 

Buddy. 
I don't think so. I know you're straight. I know 
you never took that ring. 

Mary. 
But I can't give any explanation. I can't tell what 
I know. All I can do is to go away. Miss Deane 
wouldn't allow me to be arrested, but the Superin- 
tendent said I'd have to leave at once. He asked me 
to tell who I was shielding, but I wouldn't tell. I 
couldn't. So — so — they branded me as a thief and 
sent me away. {End music. 

Buddy. 
You're trying to shield someone else, ain't you? 
[She looks at him, hut does not reply.] I know you 
are, and I got a pretty good idea who it is, too. 

Mary. 
Maybe it's best that I should go away and try to 
start all over again. I've been happy here. Happy, 
for the first time in my life. And, now — it's — all 
over. I'll have to make another start somewhere. 

Buddy. 
Oh, maybe it ain't as serious as you think. It's 
just a foul ball, that's all. It's what they call an 
error. What's one little error? 

Mary. 
But my whole life has been like that. This is the 
first time I have ever had a chance — and now I've 
lost it. 



112 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
There's good days coming, little one. They say 
every cloud has a silver lining, and it's true. Every 
baseball fan knows that. Life is just like a ball 
game. There's fouls and errors and strikes, but 
diere's balls, too, and home runs and victory, if 
you've got the nerve to fight it out. When you first 
come to the bat you're full of pep and the joy of life. 

Mary. 
That's youth. 

Buddy. 
[Dramatically acting out the lines.] You're at the 
bat! The ball is happiness and it's sailing right to- 
w^ard you. But he's a wise guy, that pitcher, and it 
ain't going to be as easy as you think it is. You see 
him twist and zoo-ie! [Imitates pitching.] Your 
bat is ready. It comes. You fan the air and the 
bunch shouts, " Strike one ! " 

Mary. 
A failure. Oh, I know that part of it. I've al- 
ways failed. 

Buddy. 
But you're young and fresh and confident. You're 
more careful now, you study the twist of the pitcher 
and the curve of the ball. You've got his number. 
This time you're bound to win. You know it. You 
feel it tingling in every nerve. You'll show 'em. 
You've got the goods and it's up to you to deliver. 
The pitcher thinks you're a dub, but you know better. 
See him smile ! Hear the bleachers cheer him. He's 
getting ready. It comes. You hit wild, and the um- 
pire calls " Strike two ! '* 



SUNSHINE 113 

Mary. 



Another failure. 



Buddy. 
The crowd jeers and mocks you. The sky is dark, 
all the youth and confidence and " pep " are gone. 
You tremble with shame and bow your head, a fail- 
ure. A mocking voice seems to whisper, " You can't 
do it, it's not in you. You're a dub, a mutt. Give 
it up. What's the use? You can't do it, you can't 
do it ! " What are you going to do ? Give up ? No, 
no, NO ! You ain't a piker, you're there to do your 
best, but you're dazed and heartsick with failure. 
\lllustYates.\ See the pitcher! He's crouching like 
a demon. You tremble. Then something big comes 
in your throat and you feel yourself again. You'll 
show him, it's now or never, it's your last chance! 
It comes. Zoo-ie! [Excited, loud.] You got it. 
Whoof ! Ball one ! Up in the air. [Look up at 
ball.] Run, boy, run. Now, slide, slide! A home 
run. Joy! You've made it. You've won, you've 
won and victory is yours. 

Mary. 
[Slowly.] Then — you think — there really is a 
chance for me ? 

Buddy. 
I'll tell the world I do. But you've got to start 
fair. You've got to explain everything. No one can 
hurt you. I'll protect you. 

Mary. 
What do you think I ought to do? 



1 14 SUNSHINE 

Buddy. 
I think you ought to tell the Sup'intendent every- 
thing, let the blame fall where it will. I've got a 
hunch it's this major guy. 

Mary. 
Yes, it is. It is. 

Buddy. 
Why should you shield him? What claim has he 
got on you? 

Mary. 
He isn't a major. He's a sham, a fraud, a crim- 
inal. He's my stepfather. 

Buddy. 
Then why not let him take the medicine he de- 
serves ? 

Mary. 
He'd kill me if I didn't shield him. 

Buddy. 
Don't you believe it. You ain't fighting a lone 
game any longer. It's the two of us. Me and you. 
Won't you give me the right to help you? [Pause.] 
Won't you ? Won't you, Sunshine ? 

Mary. 
You want me? Why, I'm only a nurse, a work- 
ing girl. 

Buddy. 
I'd rather have you than all the queens in the 
world. [Enter Maudelia from r. 2. 



SUNSHINE 115 

Maudelia. 
You're going to miss the ice-cream if you don't 
hurry. 

Buddy. 
We're just coming in, ain't we. Sunshine? 

Mary. 
Yes — we're going in. I'll tell the Superintendent 
everything. \They cross to R. 2. 

Buddy. 
And you'll never have anything to worry about 
again. I'm going to take care of you. 

Maudelia. 
Say, how does it feel to be in love? 

Buddy. 
It's great, kid. It's the greatest thing in the world. 

[Exits R. 2, zvith Mary. 

Maudelia. 
Gee, I wish somebody was in love with me. 

[Exits R. 2, slowly. Pause. Enter Major 
from Rear l., cautiously looking around. 

Major. 
I wonder what's become of Mary. I must have a 
word with her to-night. If she'll only keep a still 
tongue in her head I can get away with the sparkler 
at least. [Takes ring from vest pocket and looks at 
it.\ It ought to be good for a thousand, anyway. 

[Enter Tessie from r. 2. 

Tessie. 
Say! 



Il6 SUNSHINE 

Major. 
[Hastily conceals the ring.] Yes? 

Tessie. 
She said to tell you to fly at once. 

Major. 
Fly at once? Why? 

Tessie. 
Everything has been discovered. 

Major. 
Did Mary say that? 

Tessie. 
You must fly at once. The police are on your 
trail. 

Major. 
The police! [Hurries to Rear l.] I'll go this 
way. [Hurries out at Rear l. 

Tessie. 

[Laughs loudly.] The police are on his trail. 
[Screams.] Help, help! He's making his escape. 
Help, help ! 

[Enter Nurse and Mrs. Whipple from r. 2. 

Nurse. 
Tessie, come in the house at once. 

[Enter all the other characters from r. 2. 

Tessie. 
He's making his escape. 

Jim. 
Who is? 



SUNSHINE 117 

Tessie. 
I told him to fly at once. And he flew. [Rushes 
to Rear l., and points off and downward.] There 
he goes. The poHce are on his trail. 

Buddy. 
[Looks off Rear l.] It's him. It's the Major 
and he's running like a hound. 

Sylvia. 
Catch him, Jim. He's got my diamond. 

Buddy. 
[Gets golf ball from table.] I'll just wing his 
flight. [Throws ball off l. 

Jim. 
[After slight pause. ] You hit him. You got him. 
Buddy, you're a wonder. 

[Rushes out u, followed by all except Buddy 
and Mary, Nurse pushing Butternip in 
his wheel-chair. 

Buddy. 
Jim'll get him. 

Mary. 
But Fm afraid. 

Buddy. 
Oh, I guess I can take care of you now. We're 
engaged, you know. 

Mary. 
Are we? 

Buddy. 
I'll tell the world. 



v..,-^ 



Il8 SUNSHINE 

Mary. 
[Takes his arm.] You know I've never been en- 
gaged before. 

Buddy. 
You've got nothing on me. 

Mary. 
[Looks up in his face.] I'm the happiest girl in 
all the world. 

Buddy. 
Say, if I'd kiss you would you call for help? 

Mary. 
You wouldn't need any help. 

[He slowly kisses her. 

Buddy. 
Say, I made a home run. 

Mary. 
Are you happy, Buddy? 

Buddy. 
I'll tell the world I am. 



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